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From my notes from December 13, 2011 (!) Author: Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins & Immanuel Wallerstein Title (Year): Ant...

In Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History , Louis Hunter situates a detailed history of the development o...

In Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts , Roger Bilstein places the technological developments in aviation, space explora...

In James Flink's The Automobile Age , the automobile, and its attendant complex of technologies, mass-production techniques, industria...

In Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939 , John Jordan argues that early 20th century "rational...

In The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment , Reyner Banham argues that architecture is not just about beautiful building facades...

In  Engineering and the Mind's Eye , Eugene Ferguson argues that the current (since the 1950s) privileging of math and science over th...

In The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American , Carolyn de la Pena examines the relationship between bodies and mac...

In Never Done: A History of American Housework , Susan Strasser argues that housework, the job done by more people in America than any oth...

In Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960 , Gail Cooper examines the development of air-conditionin...

In The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present , Martin Melosi shows that the technologi...

Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West  is a history of the development of the America...

In Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century , Walter Licht complicates the process of industrialization in the United States during...

In  From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932 , David Hounshell takes a materialist, history of technology approach to the hi...