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A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience
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A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience

Author: Carroll W Pursell; Lemelson Center.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources document the technological achievements of  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Carroll W Pursell; Lemelson Center.
ISBN: 0262162253 0262661993 9780262162258 9780262661997
OCLC Number: 56191833
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution."
Description: xviii, 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: edited by Carroll Pursell.

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"Despite recent scholarly emphasis on both race and technology as highly contested and contingent historical phenomena, the interrelationship between these two fields of studies and African-American Read more...

 
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