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.

Industrial revolution--United States.

Industrial revolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Summary:

In the second edition of The Machine in America, Pursell brings this classic history up to date with a revised chapter on war technology and new discussions on information technology, globalization, and the environment.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

I: THE TRANSIT OF TECHNOLOGY

1 The Tools Brought Over

2 Importing the Industrial Revolution

3 Improving Transportation

II: THE DOMESTICATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

4 The Expansion of American Manufactures

5 The Mechanization of Farming

III: THE IMPRINT OF AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY

6 Creating an Urban Environment

7 Westward the Course of Industry

8 Export, Exploitation, and Empire

IV: TECHNOLOGY AND HEGEMONY

9 The Coming of Science and Systems

10 The Decade of Prosperity and Consumption

11 Depression: Study and Subsidy

12 Wars and the "American Century"

13 Challenge and Change in a Postmodern World

V: GLOBALIZATION

14 Our (Un) Wired World

15 America's Global Reach

Notes

Further Reading

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-385) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9232-5

1-4356-9262-4

OCLC:

299755769