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OverviewStarting around the year 1900, technology became a lively subject of debate among intellectuals, writiers, and other opinion leaders. The expansion of the machine into ever more areas of social and economic life had led to a need to interpret its meanings in a more comprehensive way than in the past. World War I and its aftermath shifted the terms of this ongoing debate by underlining both the potential dangers of technology and its centrality to modern life. This book examines the broad range of social and intellectual responses to technology in the first four decades of the 20th century, and suggests that these responses set the terms that contine to govern contemporary debates. Focusing on the broader contexts whithin which intellectual positions are formed, the book highlights the ways in which attitudes toward technology were shapted in a wider variety of national and organization settings. A common theme is that, in debating technology, people drew on their distinctive national symbols and cultural traditions. By emphasizing the interplay between debates on technology and the making of modernity, the book challenges standard historical accounts of the early 20th-century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mikael Hard (Darmstadt University of Technology) , Andrew Jamison (Professor of Technology and Society, Aalborg University)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9780262082686ISBN 10: 0262082683 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 27 October 1998 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMikael Hård is Professor of History at Darmstadt University of Technology. His books include The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology: Discourses on Modernity, 1900-1939 (coedited with Andrew Jamison; MIT Press, 1998). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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