Note: Each chapter includes Further Reading | |
What Is Technology? | |
Essays | |
The Invention of "Technology" Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics? | |
The Social Shaping of Technology | |
The Problem with "Skill" | |
Masculinity and Technology Bruno Latour, The Proliferation of Hybrids | |
New Worlds of Technique: Native Americans and Europeans, ca. 1600–1770 | |
Documents | |
William Bradford on Squanto, 1620–1621 | |
Governor Nicolas Denys on the Micmac, 1672 | |
Rev. John Eliot on the "Praying Indians," 1647–1677 | |
"...much good might they receive from the English" 1634 | |
"...contempt of useful arts," 1750 | |
Essays | |
Native American Technology | |
The Skulking Way of War Richard White, The Middle Ground | |
Arts, Tools, and Identities in Agricultural Regimes, ca. 1680–1850 | |
Documents | |
William Byrd II, "...to set all the springs in motion," 1726 | |
A Virginian Describes His Self-Sufficient Plantation A Plantation Accounting, 1784 | |
A Gentleman Farmer on Common Farmer's Tools, 1822 | |
Morgan County, Illinois (A Guide for Emigrants), 1831 | |
Irishmen and Spades, 1859 | |
Essays | |
Slavery and Arts in South Carolina Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale Judith | |
"So Much Depends upon a Red Wheelbarrow": Agricultural Tool Owenership in the Eighteenth–Century Mid–Atlantic | |
The Debate over Manufactures in the Early Republic, 1785–1820 | |
Documents | |
Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia" (Excerpts), 1785 | |
Tenche Coxe Speaks for Factories, 1787 | |
Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures," 1791 | |
xManufacturer (Correspondence), 1795–1816 | |
Thomas Cooper Against Factories, 1823 | |
Essays | |
The Machine John R. Nelson, "Manufactures" Reconsidered | |
Inside Factory Systems, 1820–1885 | |
Documents | |
Rules and Regulations of the Matteawan Company, 1846 | |
"Almira" Weighs Discontent in the Lowell Textile Mills, 1841 | |
"Amelia," Some of the Beauties of Our Factory System--Otherwise, Lowell Slavery, 1845 | |
Virginia Penny Contrasts European and American Watchmaking, 1863 | |
A Strike at Harper's Ferry (Correspondence), 1842 | |
Beaten in a Baltimore Shipyard, 1835 | |
Essays | |
Gender and Papermaking | |
Slave Ironworkers in Virginia Merritt | |
The Political Economy of Pacing | |
"Second Nature": Steam, Space and a New World Order, 1840–1900 | |
Documents | |
"...gorgeous scenes of oriental fiction," 1840 | |
"The Moral Influence of Steam" (Excerpt), 1846 | |
The Scientific | |
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