Technological Change Methods and Themes in the History of Technology

Name: Technological Change Methods and Themes in the History of Technology
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ISBN: 9783718657926

ISBN-10: 3718657929

ISBN-13: 9783718657926

Edition: 2004

Authors: Robert Fox

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List price: $200.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/1/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584



Preface


Introduction: Methods and themes in the history of technology




The social construction of technology: a review




Towards a history of technological thought




Bodies, fields, and factories: technologies and understandings in the age of revolutions




Evolution and technological change: a new metaphor for economic history?




Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change after thirty years




Medieval technology and the historians: the evidence for the mill




Law, espionage, and the transfer of technology from eighteenth century Britain




Concepts of invention and the patent controversy in Victorian Britain




Technological change during the first industrial revolution: the paradigm case of textiles, 1688-1851




Technology transfer and industrial transformation: an interpretation of the pattern of economic development circa 1870-1914




The Japan that can say No: the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change




Politics and the passion for production: France and the USSR in the 1930s




Managing complexity: interdisciplinary advisory committees




How do we know the properties of artefacts? Applying the sociology of knowledge to technology



Index