A companion to American technology

著者

• Pursell, Carroll W.

書誌事項

A companion to American technology

edited by Carroll Pursell

（Blackwell companions to American history）

Blackwell, 2008

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology" in America. 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing Analyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agriculture Includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in American society

目次

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Carroll Pursell Part I Beginnings 1 Technology in Colonial North America 9 Robert B. Gordon 2 The American Industrial Revolution 31 James C. Williams Part II Sites Of Production 3 The Technology of Production 55 Carroll Pursell 4 Technology and Agriculture in Twentieth-Century America 69 Deborah Fitzgerald 5 House and Home 83 Gail Cooper 6 The City and Technology 97 Joel A. Tarr 7 Technology and the Environment 113 Betsy Mendelsohn 8 Government and Technology 132 Carroll Pursell 9 Medicine and Technology 156 James M. Edmonson Part III Sites of Contest 10 The North American "Body-Machine" Complex 179 Chris Hables Gray 11 Gender and Technology 199 Rebecca Herzig 12 Labor and Technology 212 Arwen P. Mohun Part IV Technological Systems 13 The Automotive Transportation System: Cars and Highways in Twentieth-Century America 233 Bruce E. Seely 14 Airplanes 255 Roger E. Bilstein 15 Technology in Space 275 Roger D. Launius 16 Nuclear Technology 298 M. Joshua Silverman 17 Television 321 Douglas Gomery 18 Computers and the Internet: Braiding Irony, Paradox, and Possibility 340 Jeffrey R. Yost Part V Producing and Reading Technological Culture 19 The Profession of Engineering in America 363 Bruce Sinclair 20 Popular Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century 385 Molly W. Berger 21 Art and Technology 406 Henry Adams 22 Critics of Technology 429 David E. Nye Index 453

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA87169004
• ISBN:
  • 9781405179942
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Malden, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: x, 468 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : T21
  • DC22 : 609/.73
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Technology -- United States -- History
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA45586515