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A careful, effective overview of American technology. Ruth Cowan attempts to show how technology has developed since the colonial days through the present trends of biotechnology.

A careful, effective overview of American technology. The narrative is fluent and certainly appropriate for upper-division undergraduates. -Dan O'Bryan, Sierra Nevada College. A much-needed survey of industry and technology and their impact on American history. -Barbara M. Kelly, Hofstra University. This is a daunting task and it is pulled off as well as can be expected.

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Start by marking A Social History of American Technology as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Cowan makes use of the most recent scholarship to explain how the unique characteristics of American cultures and American geography have affected the technologies that have been invented, manufactured, and used throughout the years. She also focuses on the key individuals and ideas that have shaped important technological developments.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan was trained as a historian of science. from Barnard College, an . from the University of California at Berkeley, and a P. from Johns Hopkins University, under supervision of William Coleman.

by Ruth Schwartz Cowan. For over 250 years American technology has been regarded as a unique hallmark of American culture and an important factor in American prosperity

by Ruth Schwartz Cowan. For over 250 years American technology has been regarded as a unique hallmark of American culture and an important factor in American prosperity. Despite this American history has rarely been told from the perspective of the history of technology.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan tells the history of a nation as the technological sociology of the United States. Her organization is compelling. The book is conceived as a teaching tool. The chapter Colonial Artisans tells that American artisans understood that they had many things to gain and very little to lose from independence. Once inde-pendence came, once colonial artisans were freed from the shackles of mercantilist policy, the rate of American technological change accelerated

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Please take this quick survey to tell us about what happens after you publish a paper. Agriculture and Human Values. December 2000, Volume 17, Issue 4, pp 409–410 Cite as. A Social History of American Technology by Ruth Schwartz Cowan. Authors and affiliations.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Matthew H. Hersch demonstrate how technological change has always been closely related to social and economic development, and examine the important mutual relationships between social history and technological change

Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Matthew H. Hersch demonstrate how technological change has always been closely related to social and economic development, and examine the important mutual relationships between social history and technological change. They explain how the unique characteristics of American cultures and American geography have affected the technologies that have been invented, manufactured, and used throughout the years-and also the reverse: how those technologies have affected the daily lives, the unique cultures, and the environments of all Americans.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan is a historian of . medicine, technology and science currently working as a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her MA from UC Berkeley and her P. from Johns Hopkins University. She was previously a professor in the history department at Stony Brook University. Like Cowan's previous book, A Social History progresses in chronological fashion, outlining major trends and transitions in the history is .