Technology in America : a brief history /: a brief history. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alan I. Marcus, Howard Segal.
• Authors: Marcus, Alan I, 1949-; Segal, Howard P
• Contents: PART 1: From the Old World to the New.- 1. Manufacturing America: 1607 to 1800.- 2. Young America and Individual Opportunity: 1800 to the 1830s.- PART 2: Uniformity, Diversity, and Systematizing America.- 3. American Nationalism: A People and Common Material Experience, Late 1830s to 1870s.- 4. Communications and Power to Communicate.- 5. Systematizing the Fabric of American Life: The 1870s to 1920s.- 6. Systematizing Workers and the Workplace.- PART 3: From Industrial America to Post-Industrial America.- 7. Technology as a Social Solution: The 1920s to the 1950s.- 8. Technology as a Social Solution: World War II and the Aftermath.- 9. Expressing the Self: Individualism in an Era of Plenty, 1950 to 1960s.- 10. Public and Private: Technology as a Social Question.- 11. Public and Private: Technology and Individual Autonomy.- 12. Technology and Globalization.
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (410 pages)
• Subjects: 609.73; Technology -- United States -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137334879
• Related ISBNs: 9781137334862
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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