Technology in Western Civilization
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kranzberg, Melvin, Dr., 1917-1995
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content: Melvin Kranzberg Papers
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content: Melvin Kranzberg Papers / Series 6: Publications
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content: January 25. 1963-March 11. 1980
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.0266, Subseries 6.6
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries consists of twelve boxes of papers relating to the planning, editing and publication of this two-volume textbook that was published by the Oxford University Press in 1967.  The book was designed as a textbook for a one-year course offered by the United States Institute of the Armed Forces and also for freshman or sophomore level courses at universities throughout the country. Authors distinguished in various aspects of the history of technology were requested to prepare specific chapters which then were edited by Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. Paul J. Grogan and Donald F. Kaiser were executive editors.

Box number one and several folders in box number two contain materials and correspondence chronologically arranged, that relate to the planning of the project, the initial correspondence with authors, correspondence among editors and correspondence with the Oxford University Press.

Correspondence with authors and between editors relating to specific chapters has been filed with the text manuscript of each chapter along with different versions of the chapter as it went through the several stages of writing and editing. In a few instances where an editor's statement about an author is very critical, the letter is not in chronological order but in the front of the folder. These are flagged in the container list by an "R" after the folder heading.

There are six boxes containing manuscript in various stages and correspondence relating to each of the 45 chapters in volume I and four boxes of manuscript and correspondence relating to the 45 chapters in Volume II. Occasionally there are differences between the table of contents in the book and the container list. For example, in volume I chapter 33, "Domestic Life and Habits" became "Effects of Technology on Domestic Life, 1830-1880" in the publication and chapter 34 became chapter 35 and vica versa.

Box number twelve contains materials relating to the translation into Japanese of chapters 43 and 45.