Robert Fox

Technological Change

Methods and Themes in the History of Technology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, scholars from these two very different traditions are brought together. Never before has a single volume contained such a distinguished and diverse group of historians of technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9783718657926
• ISBN-10: 3718657929
• Artikelnr.: 31192058

Autorenporträt

Robert Fox

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction; Methods and themes in the history of technology
Robert Fox; Models; 1. The social construction of technology: a review
Trevor Pinch; 2. Towards a history of technological thought
Antoine Picon; 3. Bodies
fields
and factories: technologies and understandings in the age of revolutions
John V. Pickstone; 4. Evolution and technological change: a new metaphor for economic history?
Joel Mokyr; Medieval Technology and Social Change; 5. Lynn White?EUR?s Medieval Technology and Social Change after thirty years
Bert Hall; 6. Medieval technology and the historians: the evidence for the mill
Richard Holt; Rethinking the Industrial Revolution; 7. Law
espionage
and the transfer of technology from eighteenth century Britain
John Harris; 8. Concepts of invention and the patent controversy in Victorian Britain
Christine MacLeod; 9. Technological change during the first industrial revolution: the paradigm case of textiles
1688?EUR"1851
Patrick O ?EUR? Brien
Trevor Griffiths
and Philip Hunt; Technology
Politics
and National Cultures; 10. Technology transfer and industrial transformation: an interpretation of the pattern of economic development circa 1870?EUR"1914
Ian Inkster; 11. The Japan that can say No: the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change
Morris F. Low; 12. Politics and the passion for production: France and the USSR in the 1930s
Yves Cohen; 13. Managing complexity: interdisciplinary advisory committees
Thomas P. Hughes; 14. How do we know the properties of artefacts? Applying the sociology of knowledge to technology
Donald MacKenzie; Index;