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A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience
- Title
- A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience / edited by Carroll Pursell.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
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- Description
- xviii, 397 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 'A Hammer in Their Hands' collects newspaper & magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography & fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, & other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African Americans.
- Subject
- Technology > United States > History > Sources
- Technology > Social aspects > History > United States > Sources
- African Americans > History > Sources
- Technology > United States > History
- African Americans > History
- African Americans
- Technology
- Technology > Social aspects
- Erfinder
- Gesellschaft
- Schwarze
- Technologie
- Technologie
- Sociale aspecten
- Zwarten
- United States
- USA
- Schwärze
- Genre/Form
- primary sources.
- Sources
- History
- Primary sources.
- Sources.
- Note
- "Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-386) and index.
- Contents
- 1. African medicine in the new world -- 2. New world skills -- 3. The persistence of craft -- 4. The new industrial age -- 5. Finding a place in the industrial age -- 6. Training for the industrial age -- 7. Inventors -- 8. The rural south -- 9. Industrial employment -- 10. The automobile -- 11. Learning to fly -- 12. War work -- 13. After the war -- 14. Setting a political agenda -- 15. Ties to Africa -- 16. Engineering careers -- 17. Accessing the information age -- 18. Technological troubles -- Further readings -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0262162253
- 0262661993
- 9780262162258
- 9780262661997
- LCCN
- 2004057866
- OCLC
- ocm56191833
- 56191833
- SCSB-1367357
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library