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Does technology drive history? : the dilemma of technological determinism / ed. by Merritt Roe Smith ...

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Mass ; London : MIT Press, c1994Description: XV, 280 S. : Ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780262193474
  • 9780262691673
  • 0262193477
  • 0262691671
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.483
  • 303.48/3
  • 306.46
RVK: RVK: MS 4850 | ZG 8640 | TB 6400LOC classification:
  • T14.5
Contents:
Summary: 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. StaudenmaierCall number: Grundsignatur: 2014 A 4874PPN: PPN: 156843447
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Magazinbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Nord Geschlossenes Magazin 2014 A 4874 Available 51584317090
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