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- catalog abstract "This broad-ranging anthology provides a condensed overview of technology in Western civilization. Its twenty-one carefully-selected articles and overview essays demonstrate the complex relationship between technological and social change from antiquity to the present. Specific topics include the origins of contemporary social and political institutions in the irrigation civilizations of antiquity, technology and the military, popular perceptions of the early industrial revolution in Europe, the difference between invention and innovation, the role of government in the development of technology, the nature of technical expertise, and nuclear power and the environment. This collection will be extremely useful for faculty and students in undergraduate survey courses in the history of American technology as well as interdisciplinary science, technology and society courses. In addition, general readers will find this collection accessible and engaging.".
- catalog alternative "Technology and culture.".
- catalog alternative "Technology and the West".
- catalog contributor b10423000.
- catalog contributor b10423001.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "; The emergence of basic research in the Bell Telephone System, 1875-1915 / Lillian Hoddeson ; Flexibility and mass production at war: aircraft manufacture in Britain, the United States, and Germany, 1939-1945 / Jonathan Zeitlin ; Spage [i.e. Space]-age Europe: Gaullism, Euro-Gaullism, and the American dilemma / Walter A. McDougall ; Nuclear power and the environment: the Atomic Energy Commission and thermal pollution, 1965-1971 / J. Samuel Walker.".
- catalog description "; The replacement of the longbow by firearms in the English army / Thomas Esper ; On the social explanation of technical change: the case of the Portuguese maritime expansion / John Law ; Muskets and pendulums: Benjainin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the ballistics revolution / Brett D. Steele ; The philosophy of Luddism: the case of the west of England woolen workers, ca. 1790-1809 / Adrian J. Randall ; Roads, railways, and canals: technical choices in 19th-century Britain / Francis T. Evans -- The expansion and diffusion of western industrial technology, (ca. 1850 to present). Technology and the industrial West / Terry S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe ; Economic development and the transfer of technology: some historical perspectives / Nathan Rosenberg ; The weapons of the West: military technology and modernization in 19th-century China and Japan / Barton C. Hacker ; The "industrial revolution" in the home: household technology and social change in the 20th".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Overview. Technology and history: "Kranzberg's Laws" / Melvin Kranzberg -- Technology and the West through Britain's industrial revolution, (to ca. 1850). Technology in the preindustrial West / Terry S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe ; The first technological revolution and its lessons Peter F. Drucker ; Greek catapults and catapult technology: science, technology, and war in the ancient world / Barton C. Hacher ; The technical act: the act of intention: causes, contexts, continuities, and consequences / Lynn White, jr. ; Air pollution and fuel crises in preindustrial London, 1250-1650 / William H. Te Brake ;".
- catalog description "This broad-ranging anthology provides a condensed overview of technology in Western civilization. Its twenty-one carefully-selected articles and overview essays demonstrate the complex relationship between technological and social change from antiquity to the present. Specific topics include the origins of contemporary social and political institutions in the irrigation civilizations of antiquity, technology and the military, popular perceptions of the early industrial revolution in Europe, the difference between invention and innovation, the role of government in the development of technology, the nature of technical expertise, and nuclear power and the environment. This collection will be extremely useful for faculty and students in undergraduate survey courses in the history of American technology as well as interdisciplinary science, technology and society courses. In addition, general readers will find this collection accessible and engaging.".
- catalog extent "461 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226710335 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0226710343 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "609 21".
- catalog subject "T15 .T42 1997".
- catalog subject "Technology History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "; The emergence of basic research in the Bell Telephone System, 1875-1915 / Lillian Hoddeson ; Flexibility and mass production at war: aircraft manufacture in Britain, the United States, and Germany, 1939-1945 / Jonathan Zeitlin ; Spage [i.e. Space]-age Europe: Gaullism, Euro-Gaullism, and the American dilemma / Walter A. McDougall ; Nuclear power and the environment: the Atomic Energy Commission and thermal pollution, 1965-1971 / J. Samuel Walker.".
- catalog tableOfContents "; The replacement of the longbow by firearms in the English army / Thomas Esper ; On the social explanation of technical change: the case of the Portuguese maritime expansion / John Law ; Muskets and pendulums: Benjainin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the ballistics revolution / Brett D. Steele ; The philosophy of Luddism: the case of the west of England woolen workers, ca. 1790-1809 / Adrian J. Randall ; Roads, railways, and canals: technical choices in 19th-century Britain / Francis T. Evans -- The expansion and diffusion of western industrial technology, (ca. 1850 to present). Technology and the industrial West / Terry S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe ; Economic development and the transfer of technology: some historical perspectives / Nathan Rosenberg ; The weapons of the West: military technology and modernization in 19th-century China and Japan / Barton C. Hacker ; The "industrial revolution" in the home: household technology and social change in the 20th".
- catalog tableOfContents "Overview. Technology and history: "Kranzberg's Laws" / Melvin Kranzberg -- Technology and the West through Britain's industrial revolution, (to ca. 1850). Technology in the preindustrial West / Terry S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe ; The first technological revolution and its lessons Peter F. Drucker ; Greek catapults and catapult technology: science, technology, and war in the ancient world / Barton C. Hacher ; The technical act: the act of intention: causes, contexts, continuities, and consequences / Lynn White, jr. ; Air pollution and fuel crises in preindustrial London, 1250-1650 / William H. Te Brake ;".
- catalog title "Technology & the West : a historical anthology from Technology and Culture / edited by Terry S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe.".
- catalog title "Technology and the West".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".