Technology and American society : a history / By Gary Cross and Rick Szostak.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Edition: | 3rd edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Working the land in preindustrial Europe and America
- Men and women working in shops and homes before industrialization
- Origins of industrialization
- The birth of the factory
- Iron, steam and rails
- Machines and their mass production
- Machines on the farm and in the forest, 1800-1940
- Americans confront a mechanical world, 1780-1900
- The second industrial revolution
- Technology and the modern corporation
- Technology and war, 1770-1918
- The impact of technology on women's work
- The new factory
- Innovation and the Great Depression, 1918-40
- The automobile and its culture
- Mechanizing sight and sound
- Wireless electronic media in the home
- Airplanes and atoms in peace and war
- The postwar advance of technology
- The digital age
- Modern Americans in a technological world.