American Technology by Carroll Pursell
This volume offers a collection of ten key essays selected from contemporary historical scholarship with coverage ranging from the the colonial period to the modern day. The essays add up to an exploration of major technological themes in American history.
Carroll Pursell continues his groundbreaking venture into the social history of technologyHis selection of essays for American Technology will challenge conventional technological enthusiasm and stimulate constructive controversy. Thomas P. Hughes, author of American Genesis and Rescuing Prometheus This is a wonderful supplementary text for courses in American history that focus on technological, economic, and social change. Ruth Schwartz Cowan, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Carroll Pursell is Adeline Barry Davee Professor and Chair of the History Department at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of White Heat: People and Technology (1994) and The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology (1995), and the editor of Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas (second edition, 1990).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780631219972 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631219978 |
| Title | American Technology |
| Author | Carroll Pursell |
| Series | Wiley Blackwell Readers In American Social And Cultural History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-01-17 |
| Number of pages | 374 |
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