| American Technology Contributor(s): Pursell, Carroll (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0631219978 ISBN-13: 9780631219972 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2001 Annotation: "American Technology" is a collection of ten key essays selected from the latest historical scholarship. The coverage ranges from the colonial period to the modern day with the essays exploring major technological themes including agricultural tool ownership, working environments, the engineering profession, and the intersection of race and gender in technology debates. Each chapter contains an introduction by the editor, a major article, and supporting primary documents that provide vivid images and testimony from the historical events covered in the articles. Also included are a general opening essay on the field by the editor, and further reading lists, making this an ideal resource for students of the social and cultural history of American technology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Science | History |
| Dewey: 609.73 |
| LCCN: 00057933 |
| Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural Hist |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 374 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: American Technology brings together ten fascinating and important stories of the ways in which Americans, from colonial times to the present, have embraced, rejected, interacted with, and understood the technologies with which they have lived and worked. Topics include the colonial home, the shop floor, the doctor's office, and the telephone exchange, as well as New England mill-sites, nuclear power, and the Internet. Each scholarly account is accompanied by primary documents and a list of further readings. |