"The essays in this volume arise from papers given at the conference on 'Technological change' at Rhodes House and Wadham College, Oxford, from 8 to 11 September 1993"--Introd.
Contents:
The social construction of technology : a review / Trevor Pinch -- Towards a history of technological thought / Antoine Picon -- Bodies, fields, and factories : technologies and understandings in the age of revolutions / John V. Pickstone -- Evolution and technological change : a new metaphor for economic history? / Joel Mokyr -- Lynn White's Medieval technology and social change after thirty years / Bert Hall -- Medieval technology and the historians : the evidence for the mill / Richard Holt -- Law, espionage, and the transfer of technology from eighteenth century Britain / John Harris --Concepts of invention and the patent controversy in Victorian Britain / Christine MacLeod -- Technological change during the first industrial revolution : the paradigm case of textiles, 1688-1851 / Patrick O'Brien, Trevor Griffiths, and Philip Hunt -- Technology transfer and industrial transformation : an interpretation of the pattern of economic development circa 1870-1914 / Ian Inkster -- The Japan that can say no : the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change / Morris F. Low -- Politics and the passion for production : France and the USSR in the 1930s / Yves Cohen -- Managing complexity : interdisciplinary advisory committees / Thomas P. Hughes -- How do we know the properties of artefacts? applying the sociology of knowledge to technology / Donald MacKenzie
