Awarded the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.''Superb . . . In this careful study of a single inventor, Hughes has done more to demonstrate the `questionable' nature of traditional accounts of invention than all of the theoretical arguments of the past few years combined.''--Technology and Culture.Softshell Books.
This is the story of the 'other' Thomas Edison -- not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of ......
''[This book's] timeliness is remarkable. Now that the Western system of responsible (that is, profit-based) production has emerged as the victor over command economies, the secrets of how we did it may replace foreign relations as `topic A' at conferences, and historians who continue to reject `material civilization' as unworthy of genuine ......
Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology.''An exciting, major contribution to the field of history, for it establishes very convincingly that the growth of . . . power networks is as intrinsic to and characteristic of modern society as the growth of manorialism was to medieval society.''--American Historical ......
''Timely and cogent in its aims and arguments, it should prompt debate and discussion leading to fresh critical and historiographical insights concerning all those topics that historians of science, of society, and of culture associate with `Darwinism' and `evolutionism.'''--British Journal of the History of Science.
Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900
In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Bowler examines the completing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which the modern concept of evolution emerged.
''Original and delightful . . . [Mayr's] persuasive and beautifully written book is reminiscent of Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.''--American Historical Review.
Probes the divergent approaches to the universe that compel individuals and cultures to pursue astrology or astronomy, the intuitive or the analytical. This book blends modern science, ancient science, mythology, history, literature, and naked-eye astronomy. It provides details about astrology, celestial mythology, and calendar development.
Such organizations as ATandT, General Electric, and the U.S. Navy played major roles in radio's evolution, but early press coverage may have decisively steered radio in the direction of mass entertainment. Susan J. Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.
