ISBN:
0585161070
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 280 p
,
ill
,
24 cm
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Technology Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Technological determinism in American culture / Merritt Roe Smith -- Recourse of empire : landscapes of progress in technological America / Michael L. Smith -- Do machines make history? / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Technological determinism revisited / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Three faces of technological determinism / Bruce Bimber -- Technological momentum / Thomas P. Hughes -- Retrieving sociotechnical change from technological determinism / Thomas J. Misa -- Determinism and indeterminacy in the history of technology / Philip Scranton -- Technological determinism in agrarian societies / Peter C. Perdue -- Determinism and pre-industrial technology / Richard W. Bulliet -- The political and feminist dimensions of technological determinism / Rosalind Williams -- The idea of "technology" and postmodern pessimism / Leo Marx -- Rationality versus contingency in the history of technology / John M. Staudenmaier
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2000
