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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

Author Biography:

Carroll Pursell is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, and Adjunct professor of Modern History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of White Heat: People and Technology (1994) and The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology (2nd edition, 2007), and the editor of Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas (2nd edition, 1990) and American Technology (Blackwell, 2000).
Release date NZ
December 16th, 2004
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Carroll Pursell
Pages
480
Dimensions
179x254x33
ISBN-13
9780631228448
Product ID
2099919

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