Cultures of control
By: edited by Miriam R. Levin.
Contributors: Levin, Miriam R.
Series: Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ;; v. 9
Publisher: Harwood Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Social control.; Social control -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part 1: Conventional Notions of Culture and Original Modes of; title: Control; title: 1. Contexts of Control 13; title: Miriam R. Levin; title: 2. Nature Out of Control: Cultural Origins and Environmental; title: Implications of Large Technological Systems 41; title: Rosalind Williams; title: 3. Measuring Cloth by the Elbow and a Thumb: Resistance to; title: Numbers in France of the 1780s 69; title: Daryl M. Hafter; title: 4. The Meaning of Cleaning: Producing Harmony and Hygiene; title: in the Home 81; title: Boel Berner; title: 5. How the Motor Car Conquered the Road 113; title: Catherine Bertho Lavenir '; title: 6. Culture, Technology and Constructed Memory in Disney's; title: New Town: Techno-nostalgia in Historical Perspective 135; title: Robert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella; title: Part 2: Managing Machines; title: 7. How to Make Chance Manageable: Statistical Thinking and; title: Cognitive Devices in Manufacturing Control 153; title: Denis Bayart; title: 8. Ideology Counts: Controlling the Bodies of Concentration; title: Camp Prisoners 177; title: Michael Thad Allen; title: 9. Beasts and Systems: Taming and Stability in the History of; title: Control 205; title: David A. Mindell; title: 10. Liquifying Information: Controlling the Flood in the Cold War; title: and Beyond 225; title: Mark D. Bowles; title: 11. Striving for 'Optimal Control': Soviet Cybernetics as a; title: 'Science of Government' 247; title: Slava Gerovitch.