Technological Change

Methods and Themes in the History of Technology

Robert Fox (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

1996 | 1. A.
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-3-7186-5792-6 (ISBN)

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This text gathers together examples of the current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting other papers which reflect the key areas of historical debate.

Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: all else is ornament?; theory and narration in the history of technology - the post-structuralist challenge; applying the sociology of knowledge to technology. Part 2 Models of technological change: technical change - evolution or history?; towards a history of technological thought - an approach to the history of engineering. Part 3 Technological transfer: law, espionage and transfer of technology form 18th-century Britain; the Japan that can say no - the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change. Part 4 Medieval technology and social change: medieval technology and innovation - historins and the evidence. Part 5 Rethinking the industrial revolution: concepts of innovation and the patent controversy in mid 19th-century Britain. Part 6 Technology and modern industrial society: politics and a passion for production - France and the USSR in the 1930s; managing complexity - large technological systems since the Second World War.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.2.1996
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Zusatzinfo	Farb., s/w. Abb.
Verlagsort	Chur
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10	3-7186-5792-9 / 3718657929
ISBN-13	978-3-7186-5792-6 / 9783718657926
Zustand	Neuware