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A Companion to American Technology
Carroll Pursell (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-22844-8
Hardcover
480 pages
February 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology" in America.

* 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing

* Analyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agriculture

* Includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in American society