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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Introduction</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>ix</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Leo Marx</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Merritt Roe Smith</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Technological Determinism in American Culture</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(36)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Merritt Roe Smith</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Recourse of Empire: Landscapes of Progress in Technological America</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>37</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Michael L. Smith</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Do Machines Make History?</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>53</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Robert L. Heilbroner</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Technological Determinism Revisited</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>67</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(12)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Robert L. Heilbroner</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Three Faces of Technological Determinism</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>79</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(22)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Bruce Bimber</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Technological Momentum</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>101</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Thomas P. Hughes</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Retrieving Sociotechnical Change from Technological Determinism</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>115</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(28)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Thomas J. Misa</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Determinism and Indeterminacy in the History of Technology</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>143</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Philip Scranton</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Technological Determinism in Agrarian Societies</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>169</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(32)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Peter C. Perdue</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Determinism and Pre-Industrial Technology</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>201</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Richard W. Bulliet</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>The Political and Feminist Dimensions of Technological Determinism</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>217</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Rosalind Williams</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>The Idea of ``Technology'' and Postmodern Pessimism</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>237</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(22)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Leo Marx</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Rationality versus Contingency in the History of Technology</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>259</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>John M. Staudenmaier</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD>Contributors</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>275</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>277</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

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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

Does technology drive history? : the dilemma of technological determinism