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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited
ISBN-10113733486X
ISBN-139781137334862
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038487166
Product Key Features
Number of Pages410 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTechnology in America : a Brief History
SubjectAmericas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Science, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight27.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number3
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews"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
Dewey Edition20
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal609/.73
Table Of ContentPART 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.
SynopsisNow in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the evolution of American technology within the broader context of the development of systems such as transportation and communications. This unique book connects phenomena such as colonial printing presses with the American Revolution; early photographs with the creation of an allegedly unique American character; and high-tech advances in biotechnology with a growing desire for individual autonomy. This is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the history of technology, the history of science, and American history., 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.
LC Classification NumberD1-DX301
