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by Michael Thad Allen (Editor); Gabrielle Hecht (Editor)

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This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the changing meanings of modernity. They consider the relationship among the state, expertise, and authority; the construction of national identity; changes in the structure and distribution of labor; political ideology and industrial development; and political practices during the Cold War. The essays show how insight into the technological aspects of such broad processes can help synthesize material and cultural methods of inquiry and how reframing technology's past in broader historical terms can suggest new directions for science and technology studies.The essays were written in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes, whose spirit of inquiry they seek to continue.

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Janet Abbate, Michael Thad Allen, W. Bernard Carlson, Gabrielle Hecht, Erik P. Rau, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudenmaier, Edmund N. Todd, Hans Weinberger

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  • Title Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes
  • Author Michael Thad Allen (Editor); Gabrielle Hecht (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Illustrated Edit
  • Pages 362
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Publication date 2001-05-25
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780262511247 / 026251124X
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 6.06 x 0.76 in (22.83 x 15.39 x 1.93 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Technology - History, Technology and state - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00048041
  • Dewey Decimal Code 609

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  • Choice, 02/01/2002, Page 1066

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Michael Thad Allen is Assistant Professor of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Gabrielle Hecht is Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press).

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