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American Technology
Carroll Pursell (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-21997-2
Paperback
376 pages
February 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction.

1. Introduction.

"So Much Depends Upon a Red Wheelbarrow: Agricultural Tool Ownership in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic": Judith A. McGaw.

2. Introduction.

Dam-Breaking in the 19th-Century Merrimack Valley: Water, Social Conflict, and the Waltham-Lowell Mills: Theodore L. Steinberg.

3. Introduction.

Working Environments: An Ecological Approach to Industrial Health and Safety: Arthur F. McEvoy.

4. Introduction.

Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator: Rachel Maines.

5. Introduction.

Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America: Bruce Sinclair.

6. Introduction.

Out of the Barns and into the Kitchens: Transformations in Farm Women's Work in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Christine Kleinegger.

7. Introduction.

Advertising the Atom: Michael Smith.

8. Introduction.

Race and Technology: African American Women in the Bell System, 1945-1980: Venus Green.

9. Introduction.

The Rise and Fall of the Appropriate Technology Movement in the United States, 1965-1985: Carroll Pursell.

10. Introduction.

Hacking Away at the Counterculture: Andrew Ross.

Further Reading.

Index.