| Title | Does technology drive history? : the dilemma of technological determinism / edited by Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx.
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| Published | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994.
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| Description | xv, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-262-19347-7 |
| ISBN | 0-262-69167-1 (pbk.) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Technological determinism in American culture / Merritt Roe Smith -- Recourse of empire: landscapes of progress in technological America / Michael L. Smith -- Do machines make history? / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Technological determinism revisited / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Three faces of technological determinism / Bruce Bimber -- Technological momentum / Thomas P. Hughes -- Retrieving sociotechnical change from technological determinism / Thomas J. Misa -- Determinism and indeterminacy in the history of technology / Philip Scranton -- Technological determinism in agrarian societies / Peter C. Perdue -- Determinism and pre-industrial technology / Richard W. Bulliet -- The political and feminist dimensions of technological determinism / Rosalind Williams -- The idea of "technology" and postmodern pessimism / Leo Marx -- Rationality versus contingency in the history of tehchnology / John M. Staudenmaier.
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| Subjects | Technology -- Social aspects.
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| Other Authors | Smith, Merritt Roe, 1940-
Marx, Leo, 1919-
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| LC Card Number | 93-21422 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: T 14.5 D653
mq226119: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 136711] |
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