TY - BOOK AU - Hughes,Thomas Parke AU - Hughes,Agatha C. AU - Allen,Michael Thad AU - Hecht,Gabrielle TI - Technologies of power: essays in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes SN - 0262011840 (hc. : alk. paper) AV - T 19 T255 2001 U1 - 609 PY - 2001/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Technology KW - History KW - Technology and state N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii -- Disciplined Imagination: The Life and Work of Tom and Agatha -- Hughes ix -- John M. Staudenmaier, S.J. -- Introduction: Authority, Political Machines, and Technology's -- History 1 -- Gabrielle Hecht and Michael Thad Allen -- The Telephone as Political Instrument: Gardiner Hubbard and the -- Formation of the Middle Class in America, 1875-1880 25 -- W. Bernard Carlson -- Culture and Technology in the City: Opposition to Mechanized Street -- Transportation in Late-Nineteenth-Century America 57 -- Eric Schatzberg -- The Hidden Lives of Standards: Technical Prescriptions and the -- Transformation of Work in America 95 -- Amy Slaton and Janet Abbate -- Engineering Politics, Technological Fundamentalism, and German Power -- Technology, 1900-1936 145 -- Edmund N. Todd -- Modernity, the Holocaust, and Machines without History 175 -- Michael Thad Allen -- Technological Systems, Expertise, and Policy Making: The British -- Origins of Operational Research 215 -- Erik P. Rau -- Technology, Politics, and National Identity in France 253 -- Gabrielle Hecht -- The Neutrality Flagpole: Swedish Neutrality Policy and Technological -- Alliances, 1945-1970 295 -- Hans Weinberger -- About the Authors 333 -- Index 337 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/00048041.html ER -