Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe by Oldenziel, Ruth

Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230308022)

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Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe by Oldenziel, Ruth

Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe

$32.99
Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe by Oldenziel, Ruth

Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe

$32.99
Format: Hardcover
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Introduction. - PART I: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: SHAPING NEW TECHNOLOGIES. - 1. Poaching from Paris. - 2. Creating European Comfort. - 3. Crossing Borders - in Style?. - PART II: AFTER THE GREAT WAR: WHO DIRECTS TECHNOLOGY?. - 4. Bicycling and Driving Europe. - 5. Eating around the Continent. - 6. Living in State-sponsored Europe. - PART III: BEYOND THE 1960S: USERS EMPOWERED?. - 7. Saving the Nation, Saving the Earth. - 8. Toying with America, Toying with Europe Conclusion

Author: Ruth Oldenziel, Mikael H蚌d
ISBN-10: 0230308023
ISBN-13: 9780230308022
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2013
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.89d
By Ruth Oldenziel
By Ruth Oldenziel
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Ruth Oldenziel is Full Professor in American and European History at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her publications include books and articles in American, European, gender, and technology studies: 'Islands' (in Entangled Geographies edited Gabriel Hecht MIT 2011) Cold War Kitchen (MIT, 2009 co-edited with Karin Zachmann); Making Technology Masculine: (AUP 1999); 'Boys and their Toys in America' (Technology and Culture 1997).

Mikael H蚌d is Full Professor of History of Technology at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. His publications include Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science (Routledge 2005; co-written with Andrew Jamison) and Urban Machinery: Inside Modern European Cities (MIT Press 2008; co-edited with Thomas J. Misa).

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