Amrys O. Williams History of Technology Preliminary Exam Reading List, 2008 Supervised by Eric Schatzberg Overviews and Syntheses (18) General (8) Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Thomas P. Hughes, Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). Nina Lerman et al. (ed.), Gender and Technology: A Reader (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, The Social Shaping of Technology (Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1999). Thomas J. Misa, Leonardo to the Internet: Technology & Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (New York: Harcourt, 1934). Arnold Pacey, The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1976). American (5) Ruth Schwartz Cowan, A Social History of American Technology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). [crosslisted with Science in America] Cross and Szostak, Technology and American Society: A History (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995) Thomas P. Hughes, American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 (New York: Viking, 1989). [crosslisted with Science in America] Carroll Pursell, The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). [crosslisted with Science in America] ————, Technology in Postwar America: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Transnational (5) Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Robert Friedel, A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium 1 Amrys O. Williams (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007). Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison, Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science Deaniel Headrick, The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981). David Landes, Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969). Historiography (15) SHoT (10) Stephen H. Cutcliffe and Robert C. Post (eds.), In Context: History and the History of Technology: Essays in Honor of Melvin Kranzberg (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1989). [selections, esp. McGaw chapter] George Daniels, “The Big Questions in the History of Technology.” Technology and Culture 11 (1970), pp. 1-21. David Edgerton, “From Innovation to Use: Ten (Eclectic) Theses on the History of Technology.” History and Technology 16 (1990), pp. 1-26. Melvin Kranzberg, “At the Start.” Technology and Culture 1 (1960), pp. 1-10. Bruce E. Seely, “SHOT, the History of Technology and Engineering Education.” Technology and Culture 36, no. 4 (1995): 739-772. (Also, see his article in the Journal of Engineering Education.) Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx, Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994). John M Staudenmeier, “Recent Trends in the History of Technology.” American Historical Review 95 (1990), pp. 715-725. ————, “Rationality, Agency, Contingency: Recent Trends in the History of Technology.” Reviews in American History 30 (2003(2002?)), pp. 168-181. ————, Technology’s Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric (Cambridge: Society for the History of Technology and the MIT Press, 1985). ————, “What SHOT Hath Wrought and What SHOT Hath Not: Reflections on Twenty-five Years of the History of Technology.” Technology & Culture 25, no. 4 (Oct. 1984), pp. 707-730. STS (4) Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of 2 Amrys O. Williams Technology (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1987). Cynthia Cockburn, Gender and Technology in the Making (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1993). Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181. Bruno Latour, Science in Action: How To Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987). Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technologi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986). Agriculture and Rural Life (15) American (10) Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Deborah Fink, Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). Deborah Fitzgerald, The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890-1940 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990). [crosslisted with Science in America, Environmental History] ————, Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Wayne D. Rasmussen, “Advances in American Agriculture: The Mechanical Tomato Harvester as a Case Study.” In Melvin Kranzberg and William H. Davenport (eds.), Technology and Culture: An Anthology (New York: Schocken Books, 1972), pp. 255-268. Howard P. Segal, Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford’s Village Industries (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005). Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Reynold Millard Wik, “Henry Ford’s Science and Technology for Rural America.” In Melvin Kranzberg and William H. Davenport (eds.), Technology and Culture: An Anthology (New York: Schocken Books, 1972), pp. 351-364. Robert C. Williams, Fordson, Farmall, and Poppin’ Johnny: A History of the Farm Tractor and its Impact on America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987). 3 Amrys O. Williams Transnational (5) Joseph Morgan Hodge, Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2007). R. Douglas Hurt, Agricultural Technology in the Twentieth Century (Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1991). Jack Kloppenburg, First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492- 200 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988/2004). Perkins, Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). [crosslisted with Science in America] John Soluri, Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Chance in Honduras and the United States (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005). [crosslisted with Environmental History] Business, Economic, and Labor History (19) Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977). [glance at] ————, “The Large Industrial Corporation and the Making of the Modern American Economy.” In Stephen E. Ambrose (ed.), Institutions in Modern America: Innovation in Structure and Process (Maltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967). Paul A. David, “Understanding the Economics of QWERTY.” In W. N. Parker (ed.), Economic History and the Modern Economist (New York: Blackwell, 1986). Shane Hamilton, “The Economies and Conveniences of Modern-Day Living: Frozen Foods and Mass Marketing, 1945-1965” Business History Review 77 no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 33-60. Louis C. Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949). Walter Licht, Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). David R. Meyer, Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Arwen P. Mohun, Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880 – 1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). David Noble, Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (New York: Basic Books, 1984). Paul Rosen, Framing Production: Technology, Culture, and Change in the British Bicycle Industry (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002). 4 Amrys O. Williams Nathan Rosenberg, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985). [selections] Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin, World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997). [introduction] Philip Scranton, Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997). Merritt Roe Smith, Harper’s Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977). George Rogers Taylor, The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 (New York: Rhinehart, 1951). [see Seely’s revisitation in Oct. 2007 issue of T&C] Technology in Use (12) Regina Blaszczyk, Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning