The machine in America a social history of technology
In the second edition of The Machine in America, Pursell brings this classic history up to date with a revised chapter on war technology and new discussions on information technology, globalization, and the environment.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press
2007
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a I. The transit of technology -- 1. The tools brought over -- 2. Importing the Industrial Revolution -- 3. Improving transportation -- II. The domestication of the Industrial Revolution -- 4. The expansion of American manufactures -- 5. The mechanization of farming -- III. The imprint of American technology -- 6. Creating an urban environment -- 7. Westward the course of industry -- 8. Export, exploitation, and empire -- IV. Technology and hegemony -- 9. The coming of science and systems -- 10. The decade of prosperity and consumption -- 11. Depression : study and subsidy -- 12. Wars and the "American century" -- 13. Challenge and change in a postmodern world -- V. Globalization -- 14. Our (un)wired world -- 15. America's global reach | |
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