Technology in America
Description
Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology and the role it has played in the social, cultural, political and economic development of the American nation, from the 1600s to the 21st century. With new content on globalisation, Native American technologies, women and gender, and environment.
Reviews / Votes
This text is distinctive for its breadth of coverage. It offers a near encyclopedic quality, tackling a huge and disparate range of technologies (from colonial beer making to the invention of nuclear power) with skill. * John Wills, University of Kent, UK * This book is valuable in emphasising "ideas" and intellectual history as the key to the history of technology, and in stressing how American culture and society impact technology (rather than vice-versa). * Amy Bix, Iowa State University, USA *More details
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Persons
Alan I Marcus, Professor and Head of the Department of History, Mississippi State University, USA.
Howard P. Segal, Professor of History, History Department, University of Maine, USA.
Content
PART 1: From the Old World to the New.- 1. Manufacturing America: 1607 to 1800.- 2. Young America and Individual Opportunity: 1800 to the 1830s.- PART 2: Uniformity, Diversity, and Systematizing America.- 3. American Nationalism: A People and Common Material Experience, Late 1830s to 1870s.- 4. Communications and Power to Communicate.- 5. Systematizing the Fabric of American Life: The 1870s to 1920s.- 6. Systematizing Workers and the Workplace.- PART 3: From Industrial America to Post-Industrial America.- 7. Technology as a Social Solution: The 1920s to the 1950s.- 8. Technology as a Social Solution: World War II and the Aftermath.- 9. Expressing the Self: Individualism in an Era of Plenty, 1950 to 1960s.- 10. Public and Private: Technology as a Social Question.- 11. Public and Private: Technology and Individual Autonomy.- 12. Technology and Globalization.