Civilizing The Machine
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Civilizing The Machine
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Author : John F. Kasson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 1977
Civilizing The Machine written by John F. Kasson and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
In Civilizing the Machine, John F. Kasson asks how new technologies have affected this drive for a republican civilization-and the question is as vital now as ever. A major theme of American history has always been the desire to achieve a genuinely republican way of life that values liberty, order, and virtue. Civilizing the Machine was an innovative and compelling work when it first appeared two decades ago: Kasson's analysis of the technical developments in transportation, communication, and manufacture from the Revolution to the of the nineteenth century showed how technologies were dealt with in sources as diverse as the debates of Hamilton and Jefferson; the factories of Lowell, Massachusetts; the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson; the prints of Currier & Ives; and the utopian and dystopian novels of Howells and Twain. Kasson's profound, wide-ranging inquiry into this central issue in American history is now available again with a new Introduction by the author.
Technics And Civilization
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
Release Date : 1984
Technics And Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by Peter Smith Pub Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy). Index; illustrations.
The Civilizing Machine
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Author : Michael Matthews
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-02-17
The Civilizing Machine written by Michael Matthews and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-17 with History categories.
In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country’s booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation’s status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico’s railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination. In The Civilizing Machine Michael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people’s understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of Gen. Porfirio Díaz, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad’s development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, “order and progress.” The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution.
Modern Technology And Civilization
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Author : Charles Rumford Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Modern Technology And Civilization written by Charles Rumford Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Technology and civilization categories.
The Responsibility Of Mind In A Civilization Of Machines
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Author : Perry Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Responsibility Of Mind In A Civilization Of Machines written by Perry Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with American literature categories.
The Future Of Technics Civilization
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Freedom Press (CA)
Release Date : 1986
The Future Of Technics Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by Freedom Press (CA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Philosophy categories.
A brilliant survey of our response to changing technology, which sets out the prerequisites for a rational use of our discoveries and inventions as a means of human liberation rather than enslavement.
Machines As The Measure Of Men
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Author : Michael Adas
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1989
Machines As The Measure Of Men written by Michael Adas and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.
The End Of The Megamachine
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Author : Fabian Scheidler
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-25
The End Of The Megamachine written by Fabian Scheidler and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-25 with History categories.
The End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states, capital accumulation and ideological power have been steering both ecosystems and societies to the brink of collapse. With the growing instability of the Megamachine in the 21st century, new dangers open up as well as new possibilities for systemic change, to which everyone can contribute. Originally published in Germany in 2015 to great acclaim, Zero Books presents the first English language edition of The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization. “The topic could not be more important. A very valuable and surely timely contribution.” Noam Chomsky
Technics And Civilization
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Mariner Books
Release Date : 1963
Technics And Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by Mariner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Traces the evolution of the machine and describes its effects on man and his environment
Technics And Human Development
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Harcourt
Release Date : 1967
Technics And Human Development written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Industrial arts categories.