American Technological Sublime - Hardcover

Nye, David E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026214056X ISBN 13: 9780262140560

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Nye (Center for American Studies, Odense U., Denmark) continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that he began in Electrifying America . He examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" as a key to the nation's history, surveying some 200 years of large-scale technological projects in terms of their public value, and social and political contexts. Nye traces the pattern of changes in social attitudes to natural and technological wonders such as the Grand Canyon, the Empire State Building, the atom bomb, and the Apollo XI mission. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America.

About the Author:

David E. Nye is Professor of American History at the University of Southern Denmark. The winner of the 2005 Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology, he is the author of Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930 (1985), Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 (1990), American Technological Sublime (1994), Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies (1997), America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (2003), and Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (2006), all published by the MIT Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 026214056X
• ISBN 13: 9780262140560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384