Technology And The Historian

Author : Adam Crymble
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252052606

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Technology and the Historian by Adam Crymble Pdf

Charting the evolution of practicing digital history Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive—all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history. Yet technology's role in the field's development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars. Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians from activities in the broader digital humanities movement. Key themes include the origin myths of digital historical research; a history of mass digitization of sources; how technology influenced changes in the curriculum; a portrait of the self-learning system that trains historians and the problems with that system; how blogs became a part of outreach and academic writing; and a roadmap for the continuing study of history in the digital era.

Author : Thomas Kingston Derry,Trevor Illtyd Williams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1960-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780486274720

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A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900 by Thomas Kingston Derry,Trevor Illtyd Williams Pdf

Highly readable, profusely illustrated survey relates technology to history of every age: food production, metalworking, mining, steam power, transportation, electricity, and much more. 354 black-and-white illustrations. 1961 edition.

Author : Kevin Kee,Kevin Bradley Kee
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472035953

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Pastplay by Kevin Kee,Kevin Bradley Kee Pdf

A collection of scholars and teachers of history unpack how computing technologies are transforming the ways that we learn, communicate, and teach.

Author : James Edward McClellan,Harold Dorn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0801883598

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Science and Technology in World History by James Edward McClellan,Harold Dorn Pdf

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Author : Eric Schatzberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226583976

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Technology by Eric Schatzberg Pdf

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everything from steelmaking to singing. In Technology: Critical History of a Concept, Eric Schatzberg explains why technology is so difficult to define by examining its three thousand year history, one shaped by persistent tensions between scholars and technical practitioners. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, scholars have tended to hold technicians in low esteem, defining technical practices as mere means toward ends defined by others. Technicians, in contrast, have repeatedly pushed back against this characterization, insisting on the dignity, creativity, and cultural worth of their work. ​The tension between scholars and technicians continued from Aristotle through Francis Bacon and into the nineteenth century. It was only in the twentieth century that modern meanings of technology arose: technology as the industrial arts, technology as applied science, and technology as technique. Schatzberg traces these three meanings to the present day, when discourse about technology has become pervasive, but confusion among the three principal meanings of technology remains common. He shows that only through a humanistic concept of technology can we understand the complex human choices embedded in our modern world.

Author : Andrew Ede
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425605

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Technology and Society by Andrew Ede Pdf

Celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.

Author : Ervan G. Garrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351440486

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History of Engineering and Technology by Ervan G. Garrison Pdf

A History of Engineering and Technology offers a highly readable account of the development of engineering and technology from prehistory to the present. The author uses the broad sweep of history as a backdrop for expositions of important benchmarks in engineered works and products. The book presents early hydraulic engineering in the context of modern ideas relating technology to the complex social structures that arose in Sumeria and Egypt. It also provides a comprehensive and objective review of the greatest engineering civilization of antiquity-Greco-Roman-and discusses the western world's attempts to recover its achievements after the Middle Ages. The flowering of French and British engineered technology is portrayed through the men and machines that led to today's industrial society. Other topics discussed in A History of Engineering and Technology include the evolution of the modern ship, engineering in modern war and medicine, the advent of the computer, and the Space Age. Over 100 illustrations and the book's in-depth presentation of key theoretical developments make this volume essential as a college textbook for students, as well as an important reference resource for libraries, engineers, and scientists.

Author : Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780199713660

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Technology: A World History by Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University Pdf

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.

Author : David Crowley,Paul Heyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317349396

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Communication in History by David Crowley,Paul Heyer Pdf

Updated in a new 6th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. With revised new readings, this anthology continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history". From print to the Internet, this book encompasses a wide-range of topics, that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history.

Author : Merritt Roe Smith,Leo Marx
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262691671

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Does Technology Drive History? by Merritt Roe Smith,Leo Marx Pdf

These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical questionthat has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent,and by what means, does a society's technology determine itspolitical, social, economic, and cultural forms? 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 modern debate on determinism with his provocative remark that "the hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill, society with the industrial capitalist," and a classic article by Robert Heilbroner (reprinted here) renewed the debate within the context of the history of technology. This book clarifies the debate and carries it forward.Marx's position has become embedded in our culture, in the form of constant reminders as to how our fast-changing technologies will alter our lives. Yet historians who have looked closely at where technologies really come from generally support the proposition that technologies are not autonomous but are social products, susceptible to democratic controls. The issue is crucial for democratic theory. These essays tackle it head-on, offering a deep look at all the shadings of determinism and assessing determinist models in a wide variety of historical contexts. Contributors Bruce Bimber, Richard W. Bulliet, Robert L. Heilbroner, Thomas P. Hughes, Leo Marx, Thomas J. Misa, Peter C. Perdue, Philip Scranton, Merritt Roe Smith, Michael L. Smith, John M. Staudenmaier, Rosalind Williams

Author : Arnold Pacey,Francesca Bray
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262542463

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Technology in World Civilization, revised and expanded edition by Arnold Pacey,Francesca Bray Pdf

The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a "world civilization." Case studies include "technological dialogues" between China and West Asia in the eleventh century, medieval African states and the Islamic world, and the United States and Japan post-1950. It examines railway empires through the examples of Russia and Japan and explores current synergies of innovation in energy supply and smartphone technology through African cases. The book uses the term "technological dialogue" to challenges the top-down concept of "technology transfer," showing instead that technologies are typically modified to fit local needs and conditions, often triggering further innovation. The authors trace these encounters and exchanges over a thousand years, examining changes in such technologies as agriculture, firearms, printing, electricity, and railroads. A new chapter brings the narrative into the twenty-first century, discussing technological developments including petrochemicals, aerospace, and digitalization from often unexpected global viewpoints and asking what new kind of industrial revolution is needed to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.

Author : Thomas Söderquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135851675

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The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology by Thomas Söderquist Pdf

More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929334994

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Technology in World History by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199832613

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The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton Pdf

In this new history, David Edgerton invites us to rethink how technology is used. For instance, horses contributed more to Nazi conquests than the V2. In influence, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad matches Bill Gates. And corrugated iron is not dead yet.

Author : Ellen Ullman
Publisher : MCD
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374711412

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Life in Code by Ellen Ullman Pdf

The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman lived and worked inside that rising culture of technology, and in Life in Code she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspective. When Ellen Ullman moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and went on to become a computer programmer, she was joining a small, idealistic, and almost exclusively male cadre that aspired to genuinely change the world. In 1997 Ullman wrote Close to the Machine, the now classic and still definitive account of life as a coder at the birth of what would be a sweeping technological, cultural, and financial revolution. Twenty years later, the story Ullman recounts is neither one of unbridled triumph nor a nostalgic denial of progress. It is necessarily the story of digital technology’s loss of innocence as it entered the cultural mainstream, and it is a personal reckoning with all that has changed, and so much that hasn’t. Life in Code is an essential text toward our understanding of the last twenty years—and the next twenty.