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1 online resource (viii, 265 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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History of American science and technology series
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History of American science and technology series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : technical knowledge in American culture : an analysis / Hamilton Cravens and Alan I. Marcus -- The Ohio Mechanic's Institute : the challenge of incivility in the the Democratic Republic / Judith Spraul-Schmidt -- The American career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on chemistry, 1806-1853 / M. Susan Lindee -- From individual practitioner to regular physician : Cincinnati Medical Societies and the problem of definition among mid-nineteenth-century Americans / Alan I. Marcus -- Diagnosing unnatural motherhood : nineteenth-century physicians and "puerperal insanity" / Nancy M. Theriot -- The inventor of the mustache cup : James Emerson and populist technology, 1870-1900 / Edwin T. Layton -- Race-ism and the city : the young Du Bois and the role of place in social theory, 1893-1901 / Zane L. Miller -- The German-American science of racial nutrition, 1870-1920 ; The case of the manufactured morons : science and social policy in two eras, 1934-1966 / Hamilton Cravens -- Responding to the airplane : urban rivalry, metropolitan regionalism, and airport development in Dallas, 1927-1965 / Robert B. Fairbanks -- Unanticipated aftertaste : cancer, the role of science, and the question of DES beef in late twentieth-century American culture / Alan I. Marcus. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- United States -- History.
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Science. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Medicine -- United States -- History.
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Medicine. |
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Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Technology -- United States -- History.
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Technology. |
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Technology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Science -- history. |
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History, 19th Century. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Technology -- history. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
Culture Related to Technology |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Cravens, Hamilton.
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Marcus, Alan I, 1949-
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Katzman, David M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Technical knowledge in American culture. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1996 0817307931 9780817307936 (DLC) 95019084 (OCoLC)32509005 |
| ISBN |
9780817382728 (electronic book) |
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0817382720 (electronic book) |
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0817307931 (alkaline paper) |
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9780817307936 |
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