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Major problems in the history of American technology : documents and essays
- Title
- Major problems in the history of American technology : documents and essays / edited by Merritt Roe Smith, Gregory Clancey.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1998], ©1998.
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- Description
- xv, 524 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Major problems in American history series
- Uniform Title
- Major problems in American history series.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Quelle.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. What is technology? -- 2. New worlds of technique: Native Americans and Europeans, ca 1600-1770 -- 3. Arts, tools, and identities in agricultural regimes, ca 1680-1850 -- 4. The debate over manufactures in the early Republic, 1785-1820 -- 5. Inside factory systems, 1820-1885 -- 6. "Second nature": Steam, space, and a new world order, 1840-1900 -- 7. Telephony, 1872-1914 -- 8. Inventing efficiency: Scientific management, ca 1900-1939 -- 9. Ford, automobility, and mass production, 1908-1941 -- 10. Toys were us: Invention and technological acculturation in hobbyist worlds, 1900-1940 -- 11. The pest war: The shifting use and meaning of insecticides, 1940-1990 -- 12. The military-industrial-university complex, 1945-1990 -- 13. Countdown to cyberspace: 1974-1990.
- ISBN
- 0669354724
- 9780669354720
- LCCN
- 97072550
- OCLC
- ocm38576810
- 38576810
- SCSB-5778816
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries