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Cultures of control

edited by Miriam R. Levin

(Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige, v. 9)

Harwood Academic, c2000

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Includes index

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Description

This collection of essays explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices, and beliefs. These ideas are examined critically, not only in the light of the possibilities which control technologies seem to offer for resolving human problems, but also the contradictory moral, political, and economic consequences they have had. The discussion takes into account the important modes in which humans have cast their organizational efforts: political, social, sychological, economic, and legal. It also takes a longue duree view of the history of control, looking back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and establishes the continuities in the twentieth century as a transatlantic phenomenon.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Preface, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1: Conventional Notions of Culture and Original Modes of Control, Part 2: Managing Machines, Index

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  • NCID
    BA48117882
  • ISBN
    • 9058230120
    • 9058230139
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Amsterdam ; Japan
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 274 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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