Technology's Storytellers
Reweaving the Human Fabric
$87.63
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
6 September 1989
Summary
Technology’s Storytellers documents the emergence of the history of technology as a coherent intellectual discipline. Based on an analysis of nearly 300 articles published in Technology and Culture, it proposes a mode of historical research as a communal rather than an individualistic endeavor-looking for patterns of consensus in the authors’ choice of time periods, geographical locations, and types of technology to study. It discusses the recurrent themes of the relationship between science …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262691352 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262691353 |
| Author: | John M. Staudenmaier |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 6 September 1989 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 152mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Technology's Storytellers |
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Critics Review
A lucid, richly detailed review of attempts to establish the history of technology as a fully respectable research field… For humanists, engineers, and scientists interested in the relationship of technology to broader currents of social thought, this book will be a useful and enduring resource.
– Langdon Winner * Science *About The Author
John M. Staudenmaier
John M. Staudenmaier, S. J., teaches at the University of Detroit.
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