Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric

by John M. Staudenmaier

Book Overview

Technology's Storytellers documents the emergence of the history of technology as a coherent intellectual discipline. Based on an analysis of nearly 300 articles published in Technology and Culture, it proposes a mode of historical research as a communal rather than an individualistic endeavor--looking for patterns of consensus in the authors' choice of time periods, geographical locations, and types of technology to study. It discusses the recurrent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262691353
• ISBN13: 9780262691352
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher