| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 339 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii -- Disciplined Imagination: The Life and Work of Tom and Agatha -- Hughes ix -- John M. Staudenmaier, S.J. -- Introduction: Authority, Political Machines, and Technology's -- History 1 -- Gabrielle Hecht and Michael Thad Allen -- The Telephone as Political Instrument: Gardiner Hubbard and the -- Formation of the Middle Class in America, 1875-1880 25 -- W. Bernard Carlson -- Culture and Technology in the City: Opposition to Mechanized Street -- Transportation in Late-Nineteenth-Century America 57 -- Eric Schatzberg -- The Hidden Lives of Standards: Technical Prescriptions and the -- Transformation of Work in America 95 -- Amy Slaton and Janet Abbate -- Engineering Politics, Technological Fundamentalism, and German Power -- Technology, 1900-1936 145 -- Edmund N. Todd -- Modernity, the Holocaust, and Machines without History 175 -- Michael Thad Allen -- Technological Systems, Expertise, and Policy Making: The British -- Origins of Operational Research 215 -- Erik P. Rau -- Technology, Politics, and National Identity in France 253 -- Gabrielle Hecht -- The Neutrality Flagpole: Swedish Neutrality Policy and Technological -- Alliances, 1945-1970 295 -- Hans Weinberger -- About the Authors 333 -- Index 337. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Technology -- History.
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Technology. |
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History. |
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Technology and state -- History.
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Technology and state. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Hughes, Thomas Parke.
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Hughes, Agatha C.
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Allen, Michael Thad.
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Hecht, Gabrielle.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Technologies of power. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001 0262011840 026251124X (DLC) 00048041 (OCoLC)45058702 |
| ISBN |
9780262267038 (electronic book) |
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0262267039 (electronic book) |
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