The Government Machine
A Revolutionary History of the Computer
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- Paperback
564 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2016
Summary
An examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British “government machine.”
In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues that this transformation has been tied to the rise of “expert movements,” groups whose authority has rested on their expertise. The deployment of machines was an attempt to gain control over state action—a revo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533881 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026253388X |
| Author: | Jon Agar |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 564 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 748g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 24mm |
| Series: | History of Computing |
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About The Author
Jon Agar
Jon Agar directed the UK National Archive for the History of Computing from 1994 to 2001. He is the author of Science and Spectacle: The Work of Jodrell Bank in Postwar British Culture, Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer, and Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone.
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