Author: BoyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780395942888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Enduring Vision Concise Complete Paperback 3 Edition and Major Problems in the History of American Technology
Author: BoyerEnduring Vision Concise, Volume 2, Fourth Edition and Document Set Volume 2 and Cobbs Major Problems in American History
Author: BoyerEnduring Vision Concise, Volume 2, Fourth Edition and Cobbs Major Problems in American History
Author: BoyerEnduring Vision, Volume 2, Fourth Edition and Cobbs Major Problems in American History
Author: BoyerMajor Problems in the History of American Technology
Author: Merritt Roe SmithPublisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This entry in the Major Problems in American History series examines the history of technology in America, from colonial times to the present. Each of the 14 chapters contains an introduction, secondary readings, documents, headnotes, and suggested readings.
Program of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.
Program
Author: Organization of American Historians. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Enduring Vision, Volume I: To 1877, Loose-Leaf Version
Author: Merle Curti Professor of History and Director Institute for Research in the Humanities Paul S BoyerPublisher: Wadsworth Publishing
ISBN: 9781337269865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Enduring Vision, Volume II: Since 1865, Loose-Leaf Version
Author: Merle Curti Professor of History and Director Institute for Research in the Humanities Paul S BoyerPublisher: Wadsworth Publishing
ISBN: 9781337269858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American Technological Sublime
Author: David E. NyePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262640343
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" (a term coined by Perry Miller) as a key to the nation's history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms, and technological achievements that ordinary people have valued intensely. Technology has long played a central role in the formation of Americans' sense of selfhood. From the first canal systems through the moon landing, Americans have, for better or worse, derived unity from the common feeling of awe inspired by large-scale applications of technological prowess. American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" (a term coined by Perry Miller) as a key to the nation's history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms, and technological achievements that ordinary people have valued intensely. American Technological Sublime is a study of the politics of perception in industrial society. Arranged chronologically, it suggests that the sublime itself has a history - that sublime experiences are emotional configurations that emerge from new social and technological conditions, and that each new configuration to some extent undermines and displaces the older versions. After giving a short history of the sublime as an aesthetic category, Nye describes the reemergence and democratization of the concept in the early nineteenth century as an expression of the American sense of specialness. What has filled the American public with wonder, awe, even terror? David Nye selects the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the Erie Canal, the first transcontinental railroad, Eads Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, the major international expositions, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909, the Empire State Building, and Boulder Dam. He then looks at the atom bomb tests and the Apollo mission as examples of the increasing ambivalence of the technological sublime in the postwar world. The festivities surrounding the rededication of the Statue of Liberty in 1986 become a touchstone reflecting the transformation of the American experience of the sublime over two centuries. Nye concludes with a vision of the modern-day "consumer sublime" as manifested in the fantasy world of Las Vegas.