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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Table of Contents:
- 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