A Companion to American Technology

Download or read book A Companion to American Technology written by Carroll Pursell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of “technology” in America. 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing Analyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agriculture Includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in American society