Format:
1 online resource (416 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780801892325
Content:
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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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801885792
Additional Edition:
Print version Machine in America : A Social History of Technology
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pursell, Carroll W., 1932 - The machine in America Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 ISBN 0801885795
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0801885787
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801885792
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801885785
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
,
History
Keywords:
USA
;
Technik
;
Sozialgeschichte
;
Electronic books
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