1. Edition - January 2001
89.90 Euro
2001. 376 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-631-21996-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-631-21996-5 - John Wiley & Sons








Detailed description
American Technology brings together ten fascinating and important stories of the ways in which Americans, from colonial times to the present, have embraced, rejected, interacted with, and understood the technologies with which they have lived and worked. Topics include the colonial home, the shop floor, the doctor's office, and the telephone exchange, as well as New England mill-sites, nuclear power, and the Internet. Each scholarly account is accompanied by primary documents and a list of further readings.

From the contents
Introduction.

1. Introduction.

"So Much Depends Upon a Red Wheelbarrow: Agricultural Tool Ownership in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic": Judith A. McGaw.

2. Introduction.

Dam-Breaking in the 19th-Century Merrimack Valley: Water, Social Conflict, and the Waltham-Lowell Mills: Theodore L. Steinberg.

3. Introduction.

Working Environments: An Ecological Approach to Industrial Health and Safety: Arthur F. McEvoy.

4. Introduction.

Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator: Rachel Maines.

5. Introduction.

Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America: Bruce Sinclair.

6. Introduction.

Out of the Barns and into the Kitchens: Transformations in Farm Women's Work in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Christine Kleinegger.

7. Introduction.

Advertising the Atom: Michael Smith.

8. Introduction.

Race and Technology: African American Women in the Bell System, 1945-1980: Venus Green.

9. Introduction.

The Rise and Fall of the Appropriate Technology Movement in the United States, 1965-1985: Carroll Pursell.

10. Introduction.

Hacking Away at the Counterculture: Andrew Ross.

Further Reading.

Index.