UID:
almafu_9959243301202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (416 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-09694-X
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9786612096945
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0-262-28195-3
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1-4237-9657-8
Inhalt:
"A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans."--Jacket.
Anmerkung:
"Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution."
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Intro -- Introduction -- I COLONIAL ERA -- 1 African Medicine in the New World -- 2 New World Skills -- II ANTEBELLUM YEARS -- 3 The Persistence of Craft -- 4 The New Industrial Age -- III WAR, RECONSTRUCTION, AND SEGREGATION -- 5 Finding a Place in the Industrial Age -- IV THE PROGRESSIVE ERA -- 6 Training for the Industrial Age -- 7 Inventors -- V BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS -- 8 The Rural South -- 9 Industrial Employment -- 10 The Automobile -- VI World War II and the Cold War -- 11 Learning to Fly -- 12 War Work -- 13 After the War -- VII THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND -- 14 Setting a Political Agenda -- 15 Ties to Africa -- 16 Engineering Careers -- 17 Accessing the Information Age -- 18 Technological Troubles -- Further Readings -- Index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-262-16225-3
Sprache:
Englisch
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