Recasting the Machine Age recounts the history of Henry Ford's efforts to shift the production of Ford cars and trucks from the large-scale factories he had pioneered in the Detroit area to nineteen d
In his new preface and epilogue to the book's 20th anniversary edition, Segal (history, U. of Maine) remarks that the topic of technological utopianism is even more timely today than it was in 1985. H
The origins of technocracy are shrouded in controversy, but most of its leaders were inspired by their association with the social critic Thorstein Veblen between 1919 and 1921.Harold Loeb, an expatri
This brief history of technology in America begins with the colonial period but emphasizes the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The authors break new ground by concentrating on the impact of Ameri
