The intellectual appropriation of technology : discourses on modernity, 1900-1939 / edited by Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hård, Mikael.

Jamison, Andrew, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

History.

Local Subjects:

Technology--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

vi, 287 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]

Summary:

Contributors: Ketil G. Andersen, Aant Elzinga, Tor Halvorsen, Mikael H?rd, Kjetil Jakobsen, Andrew Jamison, Catharina Landstr?m, Conny Mithander, Sissel Myklebust, Dick van Lente, Peter Wagner.

Contents:

Conceptual framework : technology debates as appropriation processes / Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison

Theoretical perspectives : culture as a resource for technological change / Aant Elzinga

German regulation : the integration of modern technology into national culture / Mikael Hård

American anxieties : technology and the reshaping of republican values / Andrew Jamison

Engineering cultures : European appropriations of Americanism / Kjetil Jakobsen ... [et al.]

Swedish grandeur : contending reformulations of the great-power project / Aant Elzinga, Andrew Jamison and Conny Mithander

National strategies : the gendered appropriation of household technology / Catharina Lanström

Dutch conflicts : the intellectual and practical appropriation of a foreign technology / Dick van Lente

Sociological reflections : the technology question during the first crisis of modernity / Peter Wagner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-279) and index.

ISBN:

0262082683

0262581663

OCLC:

38853995