Ideas, Machines, and Values is an introductory overview of the emergence of STS as a field of study, as well as a portrait of its current interests and concerns. The book examines the growth of STS fr
The view of nature and technology inhabiting totally different, even opposite, spheres persists across time and cultures. Most people would consider an English countryside or a Louisiana bayou to be &
Reuss (historian, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retired) and Cutcliffe (history, Lehigh University) present essays on the permeability of nature and technology in history and in the present. They begi
This broad-ranging anthology provides a condensed overview of technology in Western civilization. Its twenty-one carefully-selected articles and overview essays demonstrate the complex relationship be
