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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195046056
ISBN-13
9780195046052
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Number of Pages
352 Pages
Publication Name
Social History of American Technology
Language
English
Subject
Social Aspects, History
Publication Year
1997
Type
Study Guide
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering
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Trade Paperback
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0.9 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Item Length
6.1 in
Item Width
9.2 in
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College Audience
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Reviews
"A very accessible, interesting, and informative survey that again and again provokes new ways of thinking about the American experience. I use this in a course on industrialization, but would also use it as a companion text in any American History survey. Engaging."--Dale H. Porter, WesternMichigan University, "A careful, effective overview of American technology. The narrative is fluent and certainly appropriate for upper-division undergraduates."--Dan O'Bryan, Sierra Nevada College"A much-needed survey of industry and technology and their impact on American history."--Barbara M. Kelly, Hofstra University"A very accessible, interesting, and informative survey that again and again provokes new ways of thinking about the American experience. I use this in a course on industrialization, but would also use it as a companion text in any American History survey. Engaging."--Dale H. Porter, Western Michigan University"By far the best book of its kind in the field."--John S. Nader, State University of New York at Delhi, "A much-needed survey of industry and technology and their impact on American history."--Barbara M. Kelly, Hofstra University, "By far the best book of its kind in the field."--John S. Nader, State University of New York at Delhi, "A careful, effective overview of American technology. The narrative is fluent and certainly appropriate for upper-division undergraduates."--Dan O'Bryan, Sierra Nevada College
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
303.48/30973
Table Of Content
I. IN THE BEGINNINGA Social History of American Technology1.. The Land, the Natives, and the SettlersThe Land and the Native InhabitantsThe European SettlersThe Colonial EconomyColonial Economic Policy and Technological ChangeConclusion: Quickening the Pace for Technological Change2.. Husbandry and Huswifery in the ColoniesTypes of Farms in the Colonial PeriodThe Technological System of Colonial AgricultureConclusion: The Myth of Self-Sufficiency3.. Colonial ArtisansThe Apprenticeship System and Labor ScarcityPrintshops and PrintersMills, Millwrights, and MillersIron Foundries and Iron WorkersConclusion: Reasons for the Slow Pace of Technological ChangeII INDUSTRIALIZATION4.. Early Decades of IndustrializationOliver Evans, Steam Engines, and Machine ShopsEli Whitney and the Cotton GinThe Armament Industry and the American System of ManufactureSamuel Slater and the Factory SystemConclusion: The Unique Character of American Industrialization5.. Transportation RevolutionsTransportation DifficultiesToll Roads and EntrepreneursCanal Building and State FinancingSteamboats: Steam Power and State PowerRailroads: Completing a National Transportation System6.. Inventors, Entrepreneurs and EngineersThe Patent System: The Public History of InventionInventors: Changes between 1820 and 19207.. Industrial Society and Technological SystemsIndustrialization, Dependency, and Technological SystemsThe Telegraph SystemThe Railroad SystemThe Telephone SystemThe Electric SystemThe Character of Industrialized SocietyConclusion: Industrialization and Technological Systems8.. Daily Life and Mundane WorkFarmers and Unexpected OutcomesSkilled and Deskilled WorkersUnskilled WorkersHousewives and House ServantsConclusion: Was Industrialization Good or Bad for Workers?9.. American Ideas about TechnologyTechnology and Associated IdeasPrecursors to IndustrializationTechnology and RomanticismAcceptance of Romanticism by Advocates of IndustrializationTechnology and ArtConclusion: The Cultural Meanings of TechnologyTWENTIETH-CENTURY TECHNOLOGIESBlessing or Curse?10.. Automobiles and AutomobilityWho Invented the Automobile?Henry Ford and the Mass-Produced AutomobileAlfred P. Sloan and the Mass-Marketed American AutomobileAutomobility and the Road System before 1945Automobility and the Road System after 1945The Unexpected Consequences of Automobility11.. Taxpayers, Generals and AviationThe Early Days of Aircraft and the Aircraft IndustryWorld War II: A Turning PointThe Military-Industrial-Academic ComplexCivilian Spin-offs and the Race into SpaceConclusion: Costs and Benefits of Military Sponsorship12.. Communications Technologies and Social ControlWireless TelegraphyWireless TelephonyGovernment Regulation of Wireless CommunicationWireless Broadcasting: RadioTelevisionElectronic Components: The Vacuum Tube and the TransistorComputersCOnclusion: The Ultimate Failure of Efforts to Control Electronic Communication13.. BiotechnologyScience, Technology, and TechnoscienceHybrid CornPencillinThe Birth Control PillConclusionIndex
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Synopsis
This text recounts American history from the perspective of technology. Dividing the book into three sections, Cowan covers colonial artisans, American industrialization up to the twentieth century, and technologies of the present, from biotechnology to communications., For over 250 years American technology has been regarded as a unique hallmark of American culture and an important factor in American prosperity. Despite this American history has rarely been told from the perspective of the history of technology. A Social History of American Technology fills this gap by surveying the history of American technology from the tools used by the earliest native inhabitants to the technological systems -- cars and computers, aircraft and antibiotics -- we are familiar with today. Cowan makes use of the most recent scholarship to explain how the unique characteristics of American cultures and American geography have affected the technologies that have been invented, manufactured, and used throughout the years. She also focuses on the key individuals and ideas that have shaped important technological developments. The text explains how various technologies have affected the ways in which Americans work, govern, cook, transport, communicate, maintain their health, and reproduce. Cowan demonstrates that technological change has always been closely related to social development, and explores the multiple, complex relationships that have existed between such diverse social agents as households and businesses, the scientific community and the defense establishment, artists and inventors. Divided into three sections -- colonial America, industrialization, the 20th century -- A Social History of American Technology is ideal for courses in American social and economic history, as a correlated text for the American history survey, as well as for courses that focus on the history of American technology. It offers students the unique opportunity to learn not only how profoundly technological change has affected the American way of life, but how profoundly the American way of life has affected technology., For over 250 years American technology has been regarded as a unique hallmark of American culture and an important factor in American prosperity. Despite this American history has rarely been told from the perspective of the history of technology. A Social History of American Technology fills this gap by surveying the history of American technology from the tools used by the earliest native inhabitants to the technological systems -- cars and computers,aircraft and antibiotics -- we are familiar with today. Cowan makes use of the most recent scholarship to explain how the unique characteristics of American cultures and American geography have affected thetechnologies that have been invented, manufactured, and used throughout the years. She also focuses on the key individuals and ideas that have shaped important technological developments. The text explains how various technologies have affected the ways in which Americans work, govern, cook, transport, communicate, maintain their health, and reproduce. Cowan demonstrates that technological change has always been closely related to social development, and explores the multiple, complexrelationships that have existed between such diverse social agents as households and businesses, the scientific community and the defense establishment, artists and inventors. Divided into three sections --colonial America, industrialization, the 20th century -- A Social History of American Technology is ideal for courses in American social and economic history, as a correlated text for the American history survey, as well as for courses that focus on the history of American technology. It offers students the unique opportunity to learn not only how profoundly technological change has affected the American way of life, but how profoundly the American way of life has affected technology.
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T14.5.C69 1997
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