Robert Fox

Technological Change (eBook, PDF)

Methods and Themes in the History of Technology

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, scholars from these two very different traditions are brought together. Never before has a single volume contained such a distinguished and diverse group of historians of technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136645853
• Artikelnr.: 38268914

Autorenporträt

Robert Fox

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction; Methods and themes in the history of technology
Robert Fox; Models; 1. The social construction of technology: a review
Trevor Pinch; 2. Towards a history of technological thought
Antoine Picon; 3. Bodies
fields
and factories: technologies and understandings in the age of revolutions
John V. Pickstone; 4. Evolution and technological change: a new metaphor for economic history?
Joel Mokyr; Medieval Technology and Social Change; 5. Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change after thirty years
Bert Hall; 6. Medieval technology and the historians: the evidence for the mill
Richard Holt; Rethinking the Industrial Revolution; 7. Law
espionage
and the transfer of technology from eighteenth century Britain
John Harris; 8. Concepts of invention and the patent controversy in Victorian Britain
Christine MacLeod; 9. Technological change during the first industrial revolution: the paradigm case of textiles
1688-1851
Patrick O ' Brien
Trevor Griffiths
and Philip Hunt; Technology
Politics
and National Cultures; 10. Technology transfer and industrial transformation: an interpretation of the pattern of economic development circa 1870-1914
Ian Inkster; 11. The Japan that can say No: the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change
Morris F. Low; 12. Politics and the passion for production: France and the USSR in the 1930s
Yves Cohen; 13. Managing complexity: interdisciplinary advisory committees
Thomas P. Hughes; 14. How do we know the properties of artefacts? Applying the sociology of knowledge to technology
Donald MacKenzie; Index;