Technology in America

Alan I Marcus, Professor and Head of the Department of History, Mississippi State University, USA. Howard P. Segal, Professor of History, History Department, University of Maine, USA.

PART 1: From the Old World to the New
1. Manufacturing America: 1607 to 1800
2. Young America and Individual Opportunity: 1800 to the 1830s
PART 2: Uniformity, Diversity, and Systematizing America
3. American Nationalism: A People and Common Material Experience, Late 1830s to 1870s
4. Communications and Power to Communicate
5. Systematizing the Fabric of American Life: The 1870s to 1920s
6. Systematizing Workers and the Workplace
PART 3: From Industrial America to Post-Industrial America
7. Technology as a Social Solution: The 1920s to the 1950s
8. Technology as a Social Solution: World War II and the Aftermath
9. Expressing the Self: Individualism in an Era of Plenty, 1950 to 1960s
10. Public and Private: Technology as a Social Question
11. Public and Private: Technology and Individual Autonomy
12. Technology and Globalization.