Research Catalog

Title

A companion to American technology / edited by Carroll Pursell.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2005.

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Additional Authors

Pursell, Carroll W.

Description

x, 463 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

"A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology" in America. Taking a broadly historiographical approach, twenty-one leading scholars explore important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing." "Scholars of American technology, as well as students, journalists, and general readers will find this a compelling look at America's machinery, industry, and technophilic culture."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to American history ; 13

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to American history 13.

Subject

Technology > United States > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0631228446 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004019638

OCLC

56368636

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library