ISBN:
0807876038
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9780807876039
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0807821233
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9780807821237
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 332 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jordan, John M Machine-age ideology
DDC:
306.450973
Keywords:
Engineering Social aspects
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History
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United States
;
Engineering Social aspects
;
History
;
Electronic books
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Engineering Social aspects
;
History
;
United States
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SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Engineering ; Social aspects
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Social conditions
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Liberalisme
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Sociale hervormingen
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Politieke hervormingen
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Ingenieurs
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Technische ontwikkeling
;
Geestesgeschiedenis
;
History
;
United States Social conditions
;
United States
;
United States Social conditions
;
United States Social conditions
;
United States
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
In this multidisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs - bridges, radio broadcasting, airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers, and electrical power - inspired social and political reformers to borrow the language and logic of engineering in the early twentieth century, bringing terms like efficiency, technocracy, and social engineering into the political lexicon. Demonstrating that the cultural impact of technology spread far beyond the factory and laboratory, Jordan shows how a panoply of reformers embraced the language of machinery and engineering as metaphors for modern statecraft and social progress. President Herbert Hoover, himself an engineer, became the most powerful of the technocratic progressives. Elsewhere, this vision of social engineering was debated by academics, philanthropists, and commentators of the day - including John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Lewis Mumford, Walter Lippmann, and Charles Beard. The result, Jordan argues, was a new way of talking about the state
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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