Bibliograph

Technology and American society, a history, Gary Cross, Rick Szostak

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Technology and American society, a history, Gary Cross, Rick Szostak

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Technology and American society

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

30816393

Responsibility statement

Gary Cross, Rick Szostak

Sub title

a history

Summary

Organized around major technological transformations and their social effects rather than conventional themes, this comprehensive volume links the history of American invention and technology to social, economic, cultural, and military change in the country.--Adapted from publisher description

Table Of Contents

Ch. 1. Working the land in preindustrial Europe and America -- Ch. 2. Artisans in the shop : European traditions and American changes in the eighteenth century -- Ch. 3. Women and work before the factory -- Ch. 4. Origins of industrialization -- Ch. 5. The birth of the factory -- Ch. 6. Iron, steam, and rails -- Ch. 7. Machines and their mass production -- Ch. 8. Machines on the farm and in the forest, 1800-1920 -- Ch. 9. Americans confront a mechanical world, 1800-1900 -- Ch. 10. The second Industrial Revolution -- Ch. 11. Technology and the modern corporation -- Ch. 12. Technology and the first arms race, 1800-1918 -- Ch. 13. The impact of technology on women's work -- Ch. 14. The new factory -- Ch. 15. Innovation, the Great Depression, and the automobile, 1918-1940 -- Ch. 16. Mechanizing sight and sound -- Ch. 17. Technology and the origins of mass culture -- Ch. 18. Airplanes and atoms in peace and war -- Ch. 19. The postwar advance of technology -- Ch. 20. Modern Americans in a technological world -- Afterword. Into the future? Government policy and technological innovation : lessons from the past

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