History of Technology Preliminary Exam Reading List, 2008 Supervised by Eric Schatzberg

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1 History of Technology Preliminary Exam Reading List, 2008 Supervised by Eric Schatzberg Overviews and Syntheses (18) General (8) Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Thomas P. Hughes, Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). Nina Lerman et al. (ed.), Gender and Technology: A Reader (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, The Social Shaping of Technology (Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1999). Thomas J. Misa, Leonardo to the Internet: Technology & Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (New York: Harcourt, 1934). Arnold Pacey, The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1976). American (5) Ruth Schwartz Cowan, A Social History of American Technology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). [crosslisted with Science in America] Cross and Szostak, Technology and American Society: A History (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995) Thomas P. Hughes, American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, (New York: Viking, 1989). [crosslisted with Science in America] Carroll Pursell, The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). [crosslisted with Science in America], Technology in Postwar America: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Transnational (5) Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Robert Friedel, A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium 1

2 (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007). Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison, Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science Deaniel Headrick, The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981). David Landes, Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969). Historiography (15) SHoT (10) Stephen H. Cutcliffe and Robert C. Post (eds.), In Context: History and the History of Technology: Essays in Honor of Melvin Kranzberg (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1989). [selections, esp. McGaw chapter] George Daniels, The Big Questions in the History of Technology. Technology and Culture 11 (1970), pp David Edgerton, From Innovation to Use: Ten (Eclectic) Theses on the History of Technology. History and Technology 16 (1990), pp Melvin Kranzberg, At the Start. Technology and Culture 1 (1960), pp Bruce E. Seely, SHOT, the History of Technology and Engineering Education. Technology and Culture 36, no. 4 (1995): (Also, see his article in the Journal of Engineering Education.) Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx, Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994). John M Staudenmeier, Recent Trends in the History of Technology. American Historical Review 95 (1990), pp , Rationality, Agency, Contingency: Recent Trends in the History of Technology. Reviews in American History 30 (2003(2002?)), pp , Technology s Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric (Cambridge: Society for the History of Technology and the MIT Press, 1985)., What SHOT Hath Wrought and What SHOT Hath Not: Reflections on Twenty-five Years of the History of Technology. Technology & Culture 25, no. 4 (Oct. 1984), pp STS (4) Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of 2

3 Technology (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1987). Cynthia Cockburn, Gender and Technology in the Making (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1993). Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp Bruno Latour, Science in Action: How To Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987). Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technologi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986). Agriculture and Rural Life (15) American (10) Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Deborah Fink, Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). Deborah Fitzgerald, The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990). [crosslisted with Science in America, Environmental History], Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Wayne D. Rasmussen, Advances in American Agriculture: The Mechanical Tomato Harvester as a Case Study. In Melvin Kranzberg and William H. Davenport (eds.), Technology and Culture: An Anthology (New York: Schocken Books, 1972), pp Howard P. Segal, Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford s Village Industries (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005). Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Reynold Millard Wik, Henry Ford s Science and Technology for Rural America. In Melvin Kranzberg and William H. Davenport (eds.), Technology and Culture: An Anthology (New York: Schocken Books, 1972), pp Robert C. Williams, Fordson, Farmall, and Poppin Johnny: A History of the Farm Tractor and its Impact on America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987). 3

4 Transnational (5) Joseph Morgan Hodge, Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2007). R. Douglas Hurt, Agricultural Technology in the Twentieth Century (Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1991). Jack Kloppenburg, First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988/2004). Perkins, Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). [crosslisted with Science in America] John Soluri, Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Chance in Honduras and the United States (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Business, Economic, and Labor History (19) Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977). [glance at], The Large Industrial Corporation and the Making of the Modern American Economy. In Stephen E. Ambrose (ed.), Institutions in Modern America: Innovation in Structure and Process (Maltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967). Paul A. David, Understanding the Economics of QWERTY. In W. N. Parker (ed.), Economic History and the Modern Economist (New York: Blackwell, 1986). Shane Hamilton, The Economies and Conveniences of Modern-Day Living: Frozen Foods and Mass Marketing, Business History Review 77 no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp Louis C. Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949). Walter Licht, Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). David R. Meyer, Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Arwen P. Mohun, Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). David Noble, Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (New York: Basic Books, 1984). Paul Rosen, Framing Production: Technology, Culture, and Change in the British Bicycle Industry (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002). 4

5 Nathan Rosenberg, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985). [selections] Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin, World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997). [introduction] Philip Scranton, Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997). Merritt Roe Smith, Harper s Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977). George Rogers Taylor, The Transportation Revolution, (New York: Rhinehart, 1951). [see Seely s revisitation in Oct issue of T&C] Technology in Use (12) Regina Blaszczyk, Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Kevin L. Borg, Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (New York: Basic Books, 1983). [crosslisted with Science in America] David Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). Kathleen Franz, Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). Kristen Haring, Ham Radio s Technical Culture (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007). Ronald Kline, Consumers in the Country (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York, NY: Penguin, 1985). Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch, eds., How Users Matter (Cambridge: The MIT Press. 2005). Virginia Scharff, Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992). Ronald C. Tobey, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997). 5

6 Cultural History of Technology (12) Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989). Paul Boyer, By the Bomb s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (New York: Pantheon, 1985). [crosslisted with Science in America] Susan Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos n Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern (New York: Times Books, 1999). John F. Kasson, Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1999). Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964). [crosslisted with Science in America, Environmental History] Jeffrey Meikle, American Plastic: A Cultural History (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995). David E. Nye, American Technological Sublime (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996)., Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric: (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1985). Wolfgang Schivelbush, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). Rosalind Williams Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990). Sociotechnical Systems: Case Studies (7) Paul Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990). [crosslisted with Science in America] Gabrielle Hecht, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998). Thomas P. Hughes, Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983). Bruno Latour, Aramis, or, the Love of Technology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996). Donald MacKenzie, Inventing Accuracy: A Historial Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990). Nelly Oudshoorn, The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003). 6

7 Eric Schatzberg, Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal: Culture and Technical Choice in American Airplane Materials, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999). Technology, Landscape, and Environment (17) Michael Bess, The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). Elizabeth Ann R. Bird, The Social Construction of Nature: Theoretical Approaches to the History of Environmental Problems Environmental Review 11 no. 4 (Winter 1987), pp Paul R. Josephson, Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002). Andrew Kirk, Appropriating Technology: The Whole Earth Catalog and Counterculture Environmental Politics. Environmental History 6 no. 3 (July 2001), pp David E. Nye, Technology, Nature, and American Origin Stories. Environmental History 8 no. 1 (January 2003), pp Sara Pritchard, Reconstructing the Rhône: The Cultural Politics of Nature and Nation in Contemporary France French Historical Studies 27 no. 4 (Fall 2004), pp Ted Steinberg, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Technology, Pollution, and the Environment. Special issue of Environmental History Review vol. 18 no. 1 (Spring 1994). Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Urban Technology (8) Cronon, Nature s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Martin V. Melosi, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in American from Colonial Times to the Present (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Clay McShane, Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995). Clay McShane and Joel Tarr, The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Michelle Murphy, Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Worners (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006). [crosslisted with Environmental History] 7

8 Joel Tarr, The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective (Akron: University of Akron Press, 1996). Sam Bass Warner, Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962). Boundaries of Technology (16) Professional (9) Loren Graham, The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993). Jonathan Harwood, Engineering Education between Science and Practice: Rethinking the Historiography History and Technology 22 no. 1 (2006), pp Ronald Kline, Science and Engineering Theory in the Invention and Development of the Induction Motor, , Technology and Culture, no. 28 (1987): , Construing Technology as Applied Science : Public Rhetoric of Scientists and Engineers in the United States, , Isis 86 (1995): Edna Kranakis, Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1997). Edwin Layton, Mirror-Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in 19 th Century America, Technology and Culture, no. 12 (1971): Pap A. Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs: Dupont and the March of Modern America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Robert Zussman, Mechanics of the Middle Class: Work and Politics among American Engineers Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985). Epistemological (7) David F. Channell, The Harmony of Theory and Practice: The Engineering Science of W.J.M. Rankine, Technology and Culture 23 (1982): Paul Foreman et al., The Primacy of Science in Modernity, of Technology in Postmodernity, and of Ideology in the History of Technology. Special issue of History and Technology 23 nos. 1-2 (2007). Peter Galison, Einstein s Clocks, Poincaré s Maps: Empires of Time (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004). Otto Mayr, The Science-Technology Relationship as a Historiographic Problem, Technology and Culture 17 (1976): Ruth Oldenziel, Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in American, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999). Eric Schatzberg, Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology before 8

9 1930, Technology & Culture 47 (July 2006), pp James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998). 9