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245 00 $aTechnological change :$bmethods and themes in the history of technology /$cedited by Robert Fox.
260 $aAustralia ;$aUnited States :$bHarwood Academic,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $avii, 271 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aStudies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ;$vv. 1
500 $a"The essays in this volume arise from papers given at the conference on 'Technological change' at Rhodes House and Wadham College, Oxford, from 8 to 11 September 1993"--Introd.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Methods and themes in the history of technology /$rRobert Fox --$g1.$tThe social construction of technology: a review /$rTrevor Pinch --$g2.$tTowards a history of technological thought /$rAntoine Picon --$g3.$tBodies, fields, and factories: technologies and understandings in the age of revolutions /$rJohn V. Pickstone --$g4.$tEvolution and technological change: a new metaphor for economic history? /$rJoel Mokyr --$g5.$tLynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change after thirty years /$rBert Hall --$g6.$tMedieval technology and the historians: the evidence for the mill /$rRichard Holt --$g7.$tLaw, espionage, and the transfer of technology from eighteenth century Britain /$rJohn Harris --$g8.$tConcepts of invention and the patent controversy in Victorian Britain /$rChristine MacLeod --$g9.$tTechnological change during the first industrial revolution: the paradigm case of textiles, 1688-1851 /$rPatrick O'Brien, Trevor Griffiths and Philip Hunt --
505 80 $g10.$tTechnology transfer and industrial transformation: an interpretation of the pattern of economic development circa 1870-1914 /$rIan Inkster --$g11.$tThe Japan that can say No: the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change /$rMorris F. Low --$g12.$tPolitics and the passion for production: France and the USSR in the 1930s /$rYves Cohen --$g13.$tManaging complexity: interdisciplinary advisory committees /$rThomas P. Hughes --$g14.$tHow do we know the properties of artefacts? Applying the sociology of knowledge to technology /$rDonald MacKenzie.
520 $aTechnological Change gathers together examples of the best current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting other papers which reflect the 'state of the art' in key areas of historical debate.
520 8 $aThe volume emphasises the need both to establish a common forum for theoretical and empirical research and also to delineate the shared concerns of these two treatments, which are too often reflected as conflicting rather than mutually supportive approaches to the writing of the history of technology.
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700 1 $aFox, Robert,$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77011957
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