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A Companion to American Technology

By Carroll Pursell

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2005
ISBN
9780631228448, 0631228446
LCC
T21 .C65 2004
Open Library ID
OL22610614M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2129390 bytes)
Series
Blackwell companions to American history 13
Pages
472\472
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

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

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