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1 online resource (xv, 332 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Engineering -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Engineering -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Engineering. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
| Indexed Term |
Society Effects of Technology |
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United States |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jordan, John M. Machine-age ideology. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1994 (DLC) 93002108 |
| ISBN |
0807876038 |
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9780807876039 |
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0807821233 (alkaline paper) |
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9780807821237 (alkaline paper) |
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