The intellectual appropriation of technology
Subtitle: discourses on modernity, 1900-1939
By: edited by Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison.
Contributors: Hård, Mikael.; Jamison, Andrew.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780262082686; 9780262581660
Subjects: Technology -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptual framework : technology debates as appropriation processes / Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison; title: Theoretical perspectives : culture as a resource for technological change / Aant Elzinga; title: German regulation : the integration of modern technology into national culture / Mikael Hård; title: American anxieties : technology and the reshaping of republican values / Andrew Jamison; title: Engineering cultures : European appropriations of Americanism / Kjetil Jakobsen ... [et al.]; title: Swedish grandeur : contending reformulations of the great-power project / Aant Elzinga, Andrew Jamison and Conny Mithander; title: National strategies : the gendered appropriation of household technology / Catharina Lanström; title: Dutch conflicts : the intellectual and practical appropriation of a foreign technology / Dick van Lente; title: Sociological reflections : the technology question during the first crisis of modernity / Peter Wagner.