Technologies of power : essays in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii
- Disciplined Imagination: The Life and Work of Tom and Agatha
- Hughes ix
- John M. Staudenmaier, S.J.
- Introduction: Authority, Political Machines, and Technology's
- History 1
- Gabrielle Hecht and Michael Thad Allen
- The Telephone as Political Instrument: Gardiner Hubbard and the
- Formation of the Middle Class in America, 1875-1880 25
- W. Bernard Carlson
- Culture and Technology in the City: Opposition to Mechanized Street
- Transportation in Late-Nineteenth-Century America 57
- Eric Schatzberg
- The Hidden Lives of Standards: Technical Prescriptions and the
- Transformation of Work in America 95
- Amy Slaton and Janet Abbate
- Engineering Politics, Technological Fundamentalism, and German Power
- Technology, 1900-1936 145
- Edmund N. Todd
- Modernity, the Holocaust, and Machines without History 175
- Michael Thad Allen
- Technological Systems, Expertise, and Policy Making: The British
- Origins of Operational Research 215
- Erik P. Rau
- Technology, Politics, and National Identity in France 253
- Gabrielle Hecht
- The Neutrality Flagpole: Swedish Neutrality Policy and Technological
- Alliances, 1945-1970 295
- Hans Weinberger
- About the Authors 333
- Index 337.