{"product_id":"american-technology-isbn-9780631219972","title":"American Technology","description":"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Technology\u003c\/i\u003e brings together ten fascinating and important stories of the ways in which Americans, from colonial times to the present, have embraced, rejected, interacted with, and understood the technologies with which they have lived and worked. Topics include the colonial home, the shop floor, the doctor's office, and the telephone exchange, as well as New England mill-sites, nuclear power, and the Internet. Each scholarly account is accompanied by primary documents and a list of further readings.  Series Editor's Preface. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"So Much Depends Upon a Red Wheelbarrow: Agricultural Tool Ownership in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic\": Judith A. McGaw.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument: Selections from \u003ci\u003eAmerican Colonial Wealth: Documents and Methods\u003c\/i\u003e: Alice Hanson Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDam-Breaking in the 19th-Century Merrimack Valley: Water, Social Conflict, and the Waltham-Lowell Mills: Theodore L. Steinberg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocuments A: \u003ci\u003eWinnipissiogee Lake Company v. Worster\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument B: \u003ci\u003eGreat Falls Manufacturing Company v. Worster.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking Environments: An Ecological Approach to Industrial Health and Safety: Arthur F. McEvoy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument A: \u003ci\u003eNicholas Farwell vs. The Boston and Worster Rail Road Corporation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument B: Edison L. Bowers, \u003ci\u003eIs It Safe to Work? A Study of Industrial Accidents.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument C: \u003ci\u003eEdward J. Beshada et al. V. Johns-Manville Products Corporation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator: Rachel Maines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocuments A: U.S. Patent No. 175,202, dated March 21, 1876, granted to George H. Taylor for an \"Improvement in Medical Rubbing Apparatus.\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument B: M[ary] L.H. Arnold Snow, \u003ci\u003eMechanical Vibration and Its Therapeutic Application.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument C: Moble M. Eberhart, \u003ci\u003eA Brief Guide to Vibratory Technique.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument D: A. Dale Covey, \u003ci\u003eProfitable Office Specialtie.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument E: \"Enjoy Life!\", as for White Cross Vibrator.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocal History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America: Bruce Sinclair.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument A: J.A.L. Waddell, \"Some Notes on Vocational Guidance\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument B: J.P.H. Perry, \"New York Engineers' Successful Efforts to Relieve Unemployment\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOut of the Barns and into the Kitchens: Transformations in Farm Women's Work in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Christine Kleinegger.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument A: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Social and Labor Needs of Farm Women, Report No. 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument B: Guy E. Tripp, Electric Development as an Aid to Agriculture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument C: Newell Leroy Sims, Elements of Rural Sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdvertising the Atom: Michael Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument A: U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Atomic Power Development and Private Enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument B: U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Environmental Effects of Producing Electric Power, Hearings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument C: U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace and Technology: African American Women in the Bell System, 1945-1980: Venus Green.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocuments A: Cover, \u003ci\u003eThe Telephone Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument B: Table 8-1.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Appropriate Technology Movement in the United States, 1965-1985: Carroll Pursell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocuments A: Harry S. Truman, \"Technical Assistance for the Underdeveloped Areas of the World\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument B: State of California, Press Release, \"Office of Appropriate Technology: Purpose, Organization, and Activities,\" June, 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument C: State of California, logo of Office of Appropriate Technology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument D: U.S. Department of Energy, National Center for Appropriate Technology, \"An Introduction and a History\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument E: Allen L. Hammond and William D. Metz, \"Solar Energy Research: Making Solar After the Nuclear Model?\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHacking Away at the Counterculture: Andrew Ross.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Carroll Pursell continues his groundbreaking venture into the social history of technology. His selection of essays for American Technology will challenge conventional technological enthusiasm and stimulate constructive controversy.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas P. Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e, author of American Genesis and Rescuing Prometheus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a wonderful supplementary text for courses in American history that focus on technological, economic, and social change.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Schwartz Cowan\u003c\/b\u003e, State University of New York at Stony Brook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eCarroll Pursell\u003c\/b\u003e is Adeline Barry Davee Professor and Chair of the History Department at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Heat: People and Technology\u003c\/i\u003e (1994) and \u003ci\u003eThe Machine in America: A Social History of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and the editor of \u003ci\u003eTechnology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e (second edition, 1990).  \u003ci\u003eAmerican Technology\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of ten key essays selected from the latest historical scholarship. The coverage ranges from the colonial period to the modern day with the essays exploring major technological themes including agricultural tool ownership, working environments, the engineering profession, and the intersection of race and gender in technology debates. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach chapter contains an introduction by the editor, a major article, and supporting primary documents that provide vivid images and testimony from the historical events covered in the articles. Also included are a general opening essay on the field by the editor, and further reading lists, making this an ideal resource for students of the social and cultural history of American technology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988720500965,"sku":"NP9780631219972","price":44.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631219972.jpg?v=1761781325","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/american-technology-isbn-9780631219972","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}