The Machine in America
Subtitle: A Social History of Technology
Edition: second edition edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780801885785
Subjects: Social History; Technology: General Issues; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; History; United States - General; Science / History; Industrial revolution; Social aspects; Technology; United States
First sentence: THE EUROPE THAT FIRST "discovered," then settled America, was, according to the medievalist Lynn White, "coming to think of the cosmos as a vast reservoir of energies to be tapped and used according to human intentions."