ISBN:
9780801892325
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (416 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Print version Machine in America : A Social History of Technology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pursell, Carroll W., 1932 - The machine in America
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Industrial revolution ; United States
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Technology ; Social aspects ; United States ; History
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Electronic books
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USA
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Technologie
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Sozialgeschichte
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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USA
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Technik
;
Sozialgeschichte
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: THE TRANSIT OF TECHNOLOGY -- 1 The Tools Brought Over -- 2 Importing the Industrial Revolution -- 3 Improving Transportation -- II: THE DOMESTICATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -- 4 The Expansion of American Manufactures -- 5 The Mechanization of Farming -- III: THE IMPRINT OF AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY -- 6 Creating an Urban Environment -- 7 Westward the Course of Industry -- 8 Export, Exploitation, and Empire -- IV: TECHNOLOGY AND HEGEMONY -- 9 The Coming of Science and Systems -- 10 The Decade of Prosperity and Consumption -- 11 Depression: Study and Subsidy -- 12 Wars and the "American Century" -- 13 Challenge and Change in a Postmodern World -- V: GLOBALIZATION -- 14 Our (Un) Wired World -- 15 America's Global Reach -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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