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The machine in America : a social history of technology / Carroll Pursell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pursell, Carroll W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Technology.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- United States.
- History.
- Industrial revolution--United States.
- Industrial revolution.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- I The Transit of Technology
- 1 The Tools Brought Over 9
- 2 Importing the Industrial Revolution 35
- 3 Improving Transportation 65
- II The Domestication of the Industrial Revolution
- 4 The Expansion of American Manufactures 87
- 5 The Mechanization of Farming 109
- III The Imprint of American Technology
- 6 Creating an Urban Environment 131
- 7 Westward the Course of Industry 155
- 8 Export, Exploitation, and Empire 179
- IV Technology and Hegemony
- 9 The Coming of Science and Systems 203
- 10 The Decade of Prosperity and Consumption 229
- 11 Depression: Study and Subsidy 251
- 12 Wars and the "American Century" 271
- 13 Challenge and Change in a Postmodern World 297
- V Globalization
- 14 Our (Un)Wired World 319
- 15 America's Global Reach 337.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-385) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780801885785
- 9780801885792
- 0801885787
- 0801885795
- OCLC:
- 71790353
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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