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Title A companion to American technology / edited by Carroll Pursell
Published Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005
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Description 1 online resource (x, 463 pages)
Series Blackwell companions to American history ; 13
Blackwell companions to American history ; 13
Contents Part I. Beginnings. Technology in colonial North America / Robert B. Gordon -- The American industrial revolution / James C. Williams. Part II. Sites of production. The technology of production / Carroll Pursell -- Technology and agriculture in twentieth-century America / Deborah Fitzgerald -- House and home / Gail Cooper -- The city and technology / Joel A. Tarr -- Technology and the environment / Betsy Mendelsohn -- Government and technology / Carroll Pursell -- Medicine and technology / James M. Edmonson. Part III. Sites of contest. The North American "body-machine" complex / Chris Hables Gray -- Gender and technology / Rebecca Herzig -- Labor and technology / Arwen P. Mohun. Part IV. Technological systems. The automotive transportation system: cars and highways in twentieth-century America / Bruce E. Seely -- Airplanes / Roger E. Bilstein -- Technology in space / Roger D. Launius -- Nuclear technology / M. Joshua Silverman -- Television / Douglas Gomery -- Computers and the internet: braiding irony, paradox, and possibility / Jeffrey R. Yost. Part V. Producing and reading technological culture. The profession of engineering in America / Bruce Sinclair -- Popular culture and technology in the twentieth century / Molly W. Berger -- Art and technology / Henry Adams -- Critics of technology / David E. Nye
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Technology -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Pursell, Carroll W.
Blackwell Reference Online (Online service)
ISBN 0470695331 (electronic bk.)
0631228446 (electronic)
1405165677
9780470695333 (electronic bk.)
9780631228448 (electronic)
9781405165679