Technological change : methods and themes in the history of technology
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Technological change : methods and themes in the history of technology
(Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige, v. 1)
Harwood Academic, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this volume, scholars from these two very different traditions are brought together. Never before has a single volume contained such a distinguished and diverse group of historians of technology.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Methods and themes in the history of technology, Robert Fox
- Models
- 1. The social construction of technology: a review, Trevor Pinch
- 2. Towards a history of technological thought, Antoine Picon
- 3. Bodies, fields, and factories: technologies and understandings in the age of revolutions, John V. Pickstone
- 4. Evolution and technological change: a new metaphor for economic history?, Joel Mokyr
- Medieval Technology and Social Change
- 5. Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change after thirty years, Bert Hall
- 6. Medieval technology and the historians: the evidence for the mill, Richard Holt
- Rethinking the Industrial Revolution
- 7. Law, espionage, and the transfer of technology from eighteenth century Britain, John Harris
- 8. Concepts of invention and the patent controversy in Victorian Britain, Christine MacLeod
- 9. Technological change during the first industrial revolution: the paradigm case of textiles, 1688-1851, Patrick O ' Brien, Trevor Griffiths, and Philip Hunt
- Technology, Politics, and National Cultures
- 10. Technology transfer and industrial transformation: an interpretation of the pattern of economic development circa 1870-1914, Ian Inkster
- 11. The Japan that can say No: the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change, Morris F. Low
- 12. Politics and the passion for production: France and the USSR in the 1930s, Yves Cohen
- 13. Managing complexity: interdisciplinary advisory committees, Thomas P. Hughes
- 14. How do we know the properties of artefacts? Applying the sociology of knowledge to technology, Donald MacKenzie
- Index
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