UID:
almahu_9949384088602882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 378 pages)
Edition:
3rd edition.
ISBN:
9781351249119
,
1351249118
,
9781351249096
,
1351249096
,
9781351249102
,
135124910X
,
9781351249089
,
1351249088
Note:
"Second edition published by Pearson Education Ltd., 2005" -- title page verso.
,
Working the land in preindustrial Europe and America -- Men and women working in shops and homes before industrialization -- Origins of industrialization -- The birth of the factory -- Iron, steam and rails -- Machines and their mass production -- Machines on the farm and in the forest, 1800-1940 -- Americans confront a mechanical world, 1780-1900 -- The second industrial revolution -- Technology and the modern corporation -- Technology and war, 1770-1918 -- The impact of technology on women's work -- The new factory -- Innovation and the Great Depression, 1918-40 -- The automobile and its culture -- Mechanizing sight and sound -- Wireless electronic media in the home -- Airplanes and atoms in peace and war -- The postwar advance of technology -- The digital age -- Modern Americans in a technological world.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cross, Gary S., author. Technology and American society New York ; London : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 ISBN 9781138090330
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
;
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781351249119
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351249119
