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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44959394 Title: Does technology drive history? : the dilemma of technological determinism Author: Merritt Roe Smith; Leo Marx Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994. ISBN/ISSN: 0585161070 9780585161075 9780262193474 0262193477 9780262691673 0262691671 0262283905 9780262283908 OCLC:44959394

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Does technology drive history? : the dilemma of technological determinism

Author:	Merritt Roe Smith; Leo Marx
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	These 13 essays explore to what extent, and by what means, a society's technology determines its political, social, economic and cultural forms. Karl Marx launched the modern debate on determinism and this book clarifies the debate and carries it forward.
Subjects	Technology -- Social aspects. Technologie -- Aspect social. SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Electronic books
Additional Physical Format:	Print version: Does technology drive history?. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994 (DLC) 93021422 (OCoLC)28929481
Material Type:	Document, Internet resource
Document Type:	Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors:	Merritt Roe Smith; Leo Marx Find more information about:
ISBN:	0585161070 9780585161075 9780262193474 0262193477 9780262691673 0262691671 0262283905 9780262283908
OCLC Number:	44959394
Reproduction Notes:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2021. MiAaHDL
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) : illustrations
Details:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Contents:	Technological determinism in American culture / Merritt Roe Smith -- Recourse of empire : landscapes of progress in technological America / Michael L. Smith -- Do machines make history? / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Technological determinism revisited / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Three faces of technological determinism / Bruce Bimber -- Technological momentum / Thomas P. Hughes -- Retrieving sociotechnical change from technological determinism / Thomas J. Misa -- Determinism and indeterminacy in the history of technology / Philip Scranton -- Technological determinism in agrarian societies / Peter C. Perdue -- Determinism and pre-industrial technology / Richard W. Bulliet -- The political and feminist dimensions of technological determinism / Rosalind Williams -- The idea of "technology" and postmodern pessimism / Leo Marx -- Rationality versus contingency in the history of technology / John M. Staudenmaier.
Responsibility:	edited by Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx.

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These 13 essays explore to what extent, and by what means, a society's technology determines its political, social, economic and cultural forms. Karl Marx launched the modern debate on determinism and this book clarifies the debate and carries it forward.

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