Merritt L Smith

Inventing America, Second Edition (Single-Volume Edition) (v. 1-2)

W. W. Norton presents Inventing America, a balanced new survey of American history by four outstanding historians. The text uses the theme of innovation—the impulse in American history to "make it new"—to integrate the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the American story. From ...

Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change

Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it highlights ...

Inventing America: A History of the United States (Second Edition) (Vol. 2)

Adopted at over 250 colleges and universities in its First Edition, Inventing America broke new ground by integrating the cultural, social, and political dimensions of the American story around the unifying theme of innovation―the pragmatic forward-looking direction of American history, the willingn...

Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change

Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it highlights the major p...

Inventing America: A History of the United States, Vol. 1

W. W. Norton presents Inventing America, a balanced new survey of American history by four outstanding historians. The text uses the theme of innovation—the impulse in American history to "make it new"—to integrate the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the American story. From ...

Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms?Karl Marx launched the ...

Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead, they examine a ...

Major Problems in the History of American Technology (Major Problems in American History)

This entry in the Major Problems in American History series examines the history of technology in America, from colonial times to the present. Each of the 14 chapters contains an introduction, secondary readings, documents, headnotes, and suggested readings.

Enduring Vision

Responsible Science: The Impact of Technology on Society

Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

Inventing America: A History of the United States

Inventing America: A History of the United States, Volume 1

Inventing America: A History of the United States From 1865

Major Problems in the History of American Technology