Where Minds and Matters Meet: Volume 6

ISBN-13: 9780520289109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 400 str.

Janssen, Volker

Opis

The American Westwhere such landmarks as the Golden Gate Bridge rival wild landscapes in popularity and iconic significancehas been viewed as a frontier of technological innovation. Where Minds and Matters Meet calls attention to the convergence of Western history and the history of technology, showing that the region s politics and culture have shaped seemingly placeless, global technological practices and institutions. Drawing on political and social history as well as art history, the book s essays take the cultural measure of the region s great technological milestones, including San Diego s Panama-California Exposition, the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam in the Sierras, and traffic planning in Los Angeles.
Contributors: Amy Bix, Louise Nelson Dyble, Patrick McCray, Linda Nash, Peter Neushul, Matthew W. Roth, Bruce Sinclair, L. Chase Smith, Carlene Stephens, Aristotle Tympas, Jason Weems, Peter Westwick, Stephanie Young"