Technological Change

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ISBN: 9783718657926 | 3718657929
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Copyright: 12/1/1995

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In this volume, scholars from these two very different traditions are brought together. Never before has a single volume contained such a distinguished and diverse group of historians of technology.

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Preface
Introduction: Methods and themes in the history of technology	p. 1
The social construction of technology: a review	p. 17
Towards a history of technological thought	p. 37
Bodies, fields, and factories: technologies and understandings in the age of revolutions	p. 51
Evolution and technological change: a new metaphor for economic history?	p. 63
Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change after thirty years	p. 85
Medieval technology and the historians: the evidence for the mill	p. 103
Law, espionage, and the transfer of technology from eighteenth century Britain	p. 123
Concepts of invention and the patent controversy in Victorian Britain	p. 137
Technological change during the first industrial revolution: the paradigm case of textiles, 1688-1851	p. 155
Technology transfer and industrial transformation: an interpretation of the pattern of economic development circa 1870-1914	p. 177
The Japan that can say No: the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change	p. 201
Politics and the passion for production: France and the USSR in the 1930s	p. 215
Managing complexity: interdisciplinary advisory committees	p. 229
How do we know the properties of artefacts? Applying the sociology of knowledge to technology	p. 247
Index	p. 265
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