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Main Author:	Segal, Howard P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1994.
Subjects:	Technology > History > United States Technology > Social aspects > United States SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects. Technology. Technology > Social aspects. Technologie. United States.
Online Access:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=13926

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: The American Ideology of Technological Progress: Historical Perspectives
pt. 1. Technology and American History Rethought. 2. The "Middle Landscape": A Critique, a Revision, and an Appreciation. 3. The Automobile and the Prospect of an American Technological Plateau. 4. Alexis de Tocqueville and the Dilemmas of Modernization
pt. 2. Technological Museums Revisited. 5. The Machine Shop in American Society and Culture. 6. On Technological Museums: A Professor's Perspective. 7. Computers and Museums: Problems and Opportunities of Display and Interpretation
pt. 3. Four Technological Visions Reexamined. 8. Edward Bellamy and Technology: Reconciling Centralization and Decentralization. 9. The First Feminist Technological Utopia: Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora (1890). 10. Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia. 11. Lewis Mumford's Alternatives to the Megamachine: Critical Utopianism, Regionalism, and Decentralization.