| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 282 pages) |
| Contents |
1. The Society and Its Journal: The Emergence of Shared Discourse, p.1 -- The Society's Constituencies, p.2 -- The Formation of a Viable Intellectual Focus, p.5 -- Seholarly Ancestry, p.8 -- Methodological Profile of the Journal, p.12 -- The Communal Character of Historical Research: An Interpretative Model, p.18 -- Land, Time, and Technology: Dimensions of Historical Terrain, p.26 -- 2. Emerging Technology and the My♯łtery of Creativity, p.35 -- An Oueroie♯ło of the Theme, p.37 -- The Process of Technological Change, p.40 -- Emerging Technology and Its Technological Ambience, p.61 -- Historiographical Status of the Systems Approach, p.79 -- 3. Science, Technology, and the Characteristic♯ł of Technological Knowledge, p.83 -- The Relationship between Science and Technology, p.86 -- Is Technology Applied Sciencel, p.95 -- Four Charaaetistics Of Technological Knowledge, p.103 -- 4. Technology and Its Cultural Ambience, p.121 -- Technology Transfer, p.123 -- The Debate over Technological Determinism, p.134 -- Technological Momentum as a Model for the Relationship between Technology and Culture, p.148 -- 5. Beyond Mig History, p.162 -- The Intergration Of Design and Context, p.166 -- Signs Of Whiggery, p.173 -- Recent Monographs and the Integration Of Design and Ambience, p.181 -- Three Constituencies in Technological Change, p.192 |
| Summary |
Annotation 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 and technology and the cultural ambience of technology, and examines the extent to which historians are moving away from a once pervasive ideology of autonomous technological progress. Co-published with the Society for the History of Technology |
| Analysis |
Technology American historiography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-271) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Technology -- History
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Technology
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Wetenschapssociologie.
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Technologisch aspectenonderzoek.
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Technique -- Aspect social.
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Technique -- Histoire.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0262192373 |
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9780262192378 |
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0262691353 |
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9780262691352 |
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