Technological Change

Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: all else is ornament?; theory and narration in the history of technology - the post-structuralist challenge; applying the sociology of knowledge to technology. Part 2 Models of technological change: technical change - evolution or history?; towards a history of technological thought - an approach to the history of engineering. Part 3 Technological transfer: law, espionage and transfer of technology form 18th-century Britain; the Japan that can say no - the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change. Part 4 Medieval technology and social change: medieval technology and innovation - historins and the evidence. Part 5 Rethinking the industrial revolution: concepts of innovation and the patent controversy in mid 19th-century Britain. Part 6 Technology and modern industrial society: politics and a passion for production - France and the USSR in the 1930s; managing complexity - large technological systems since the Second World War.