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The machine in America : a social history of technology / Carroll Pursell.

by Pursell, Carroll W.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 2007.

Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.

Industrial revolution -- United States.

9780801885785 (alk. paper)

9780801885792 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0801885787 (alk. paper)

0801885795 (pbk. : alk. paper)

xvi, 398 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

I: The transit of technology -- The tools brought over -- Importing the industrial revolution -- Improving transportation -- II: The domestication of the industrial revolution -- The expansion of American manufactures -- The mechanization of farming -- III: the imprint of American technology -- Creating an urban environment -- Westward the course of industry -- Export, exploitation, and empire -- IV: Technology and hegemony -- The coming of science and systems -- The decade of prosperity and consumption -- Depression: study and subsidy -- Wars and the "American century" -- Challenge and change in a postmodern world -- V: Globalization -- Our (un)wired world -- America's global reach.

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