The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology - Hardcover

Pursell, Carroll

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801885787 ISBN 13: 9780801885785

Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

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Críticas:

"The Machine in America's modest preface fails to acknowledge the magnitude of the task undertaken by Carroll Pursell... This book succeeds in achieving Pursell's goals." -- Robert Martello, Isis

"Certainly one of the best introductions to the history of American technology... Highly recommended." -- Choice

"What differentiates this book and makes it especially appealing is its coverage of agricultural and environmental topics. These subjects are often overlooked by historians of technology, and Pursell's inclusion of them represents an important step toward integrating these fields." -- Nicholas Buchanan, Agricultural History

"The Machine in America has been enduring for multiple reasons, including its solid prose, excellent illustrations and captions, use of current themes (gender, race, class), focus on how society constructs technology, and a critical view of technology as something that historically has been used in America, all too often, to reinforce the powerful rather than help the weak." -- Industrial Archaeology

Críticas:

"It would be hard to find a better introduction to the history of American technology -- or, for that matter, to American history itself." -- American Heritage of Invention and Technology, reviewing a previous edition or volume

"A balanced and clearly written account of the development of American manufacturing and engineering from the colonial period to the present." -- American Studies International, reviewing a previous edition or volume

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• Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0801885787
• ISBN 13: 9780801885785
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416