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methods and themes in the history of technology

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An edition of Technological change (1996)

Technological change

methods and themes in the history of technology

Technological 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.

The 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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Harwood Academic
Language
English
Pages
271

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Table of Contents

The social construction of technology : a review / Trevor Pinch
Towards a history of technological thought / Antoine Picon
Bodies, fields, and factories : technologies and understandings in the age of revolutions / John V. Pickstone
Evolution and technological change : a new metaphor for economic history? / Joel Mokyr
Lynn White's Medieval technology and social change after thirty years / Bert Hall
Medieval technology and the historians : the evidence for the mill / Richard Holt
Law, espionage, and the transfer of technology from eighteenth century Britain / John Harris
Concepts of invention and the patent controversy in Victorian Britain / Christine MacLeod
Technological change during the first industrial revolution : the paradigm case of textiles, 1688-1851 / Patrick O'Brien, Trevor Griffiths, and Philip Hunt
Technology transfer and industrial transformation : an interpretation of the pattern of economic development circa 1870-1914 / Ian Inkster
The Japan that can say no : the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change / Morris F. Low
Politics and the passion for production : France and the USSR in the 1930s / Yves Cohen
Managing complexity : interdisciplinary advisory committees / Thomas P. Hughes
How do we know the properties of artefacts? applying the sociology of knowledge to technology / Donald MacKenzie.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.

Published in
Australia
Series
Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ;, v. 1
Genre
Congresses.

Classifications

Library of Congress
T15 .T417 1996, T15.T417 1996, T15

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 271 p. :
Number of pages
271

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL138485M
ISBN 10
3718657929
LCCN
99521773
OCLC/WorldCat
34761315, 817706559
Library Thing
6588475

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