A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience / edited by Carroll Pursell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pursell, Carroll W.

Lemelson Center.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--United States--History.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects--United States--History.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans."--Jacket.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

I COLONIAL ERA

1 African Medicine in the New World

2 New World Skills

II ANTEBELLUM YEARS

3 The Persistence of Craft

4 The New Industrial Age

III WAR, RECONSTRUCTION, AND SEGREGATION

5 Finding a Place in the Industrial Age

IV THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

6 Training for the Industrial Age

7 Inventors

V BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS

8 The Rural South

9 Industrial Employment

10 The Automobile

VI World War II and the Cold War

11 Learning to Fly

12 War Work

13 After the War

VII THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND

14 Setting a Political Agenda

15 Ties to Africa

16 Engineering Careers

17 Accessing the Information Age

18 Technological Troubles

Further Readings

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-386) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-09694-X

9786612096945

0-262-28195-3

1-4237-9657-8

OCLC:

182530570

Publisher Number:

9780262162258