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- catalog abstract "In this multidisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs - bridges, radio broadcasting, airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers, and electrical power - inspired social and political reformers to borrow the language and logic of engineering in the early twentieth century, bringing terms like efficiency, technocracy, and social engineering into the political lexicon. Demonstrating that the cultural impact of technology spread far beyond the factory and laboratory, Jordan shows how a panoply of reformers embraced the language of machinery and engineering as metaphors for modern statecraft and social progress. President Herbert Hoover, himself an engineer, became the most powerful of the technocratic progressives. Elsewhere, this vision of social engineering was debated by academics, philanthropists, and commentators of the day - including John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Lewis Mumford, Walter Lippmann, and Charles Beard. The result, Jordan argues, was a new way of talking about the state.".
- catalog contributor b5728451.
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1865-1918.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1918-1932.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1933-1945.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "In this multidisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs - bridges, radio broadcasting, airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers, and electrical power - inspired social and political reformers to borrow the language and logic of engineering in the early twentieth century, bringing terms like efficiency, technocracy, and social engineering into the political lexicon. Demonstrating that the cultural impact of technology spread far beyond the factory and laboratory, Jordan shows how a panoply of reformers embraced the language of machinery and engineering as metaphors for modern statecraft and social progress. President Herbert Hoover, himself an engineer, became the most powerful of the technocratic progressives. Elsewhere, this vision of social engineering was debated by academics, philanthropists, and commentators of the day - including John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Lewis Mumford, Walter Lippmann, and Charles Beard. The result, Jordan argues, was a new way of talking about the state.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Predecessors, 1880-1910. 1. Origins of American Rational Reform -- pt. 2. Definitions, 1911-1918. 2. Engineers and Efficiency. 3. Structuring a New Republic -- pt. 3. Implementation and Redefinition, 1918-1934. 4. War and Reconstruction. 5. The Great Engineer. 6. Scientific Philanthropy, Philanthropic Science. 7. Social Engineering Projects: The 1920s. 8. Roads Not Taken. 9. Social Engineering in the Depression, I: Outside the New Deal. 10. Social Engineering in the Depression, II: Inside the New Deal -- pt. 4. Reconsideration and Retreat, 1934-1939. 11. Reconsiderations.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 332 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Machine-age ideology.".
- catalog identifier "0807821233 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Machine-age ideology.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Machine-age ideology.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1865-1918.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1918-1932.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1933-1945.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "306.4/5/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Engineering Social aspects United States History.".
- catalog subject "TA23 .J67 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Predecessors, 1880-1910. 1. Origins of American Rational Reform -- pt. 2. Definitions, 1911-1918. 2. Engineers and Efficiency. 3. Structuring a New Republic -- pt. 3. Implementation and Redefinition, 1918-1934. 4. War and Reconstruction. 5. The Great Engineer. 6. Scientific Philanthropy, Philanthropic Science. 7. Social Engineering Projects: The 1920s. 8. Roads Not Taken. 9. Social Engineering in the Depression, I: Outside the New Deal. 10. Social Engineering in the Depression, II: Inside the New Deal -- pt. 4. Reconsideration and Retreat, 1934-1939. 11. Reconsiderations.".
- catalog title "Machine-age ideology : social engineering and American liberalism, 1911-1939 / John M. Jordan.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".