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Tables of Contents for Does Technology Drive History?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Leo Marx
Merritt Roe Smith
Technological Determinism in American Culture
1
36
Merritt Roe Smith
Recourse of Empire: Landscapes of Progress in Technological America
37
16
Michael L. Smith
Do Machines Make History?
53
14
Robert L. Heilbroner
Technological Determinism Revisited
67
12
Robert L. Heilbroner
Three Faces of Technological Determinism
79
22
Bruce Bimber
Technological Momentum
101
14
Thomas P. Hughes
Retrieving Sociotechnical Change from Technological Determinism
115
28
Thomas J. Misa
Determinism and Indeterminacy in the History of Technology
143
26
Philip Scranton
Technological Determinism in Agrarian Societies
169
32
Peter C. Perdue
Determinism and Pre-Industrial Technology
201
16
Richard W. Bulliet
The Political and Feminist Dimensions of Technological Determinism
217
20
Rosalind Williams
The Idea of ``Technology'' and Postmodern Pessimism
237
22
Leo Marx
Rationality versus Contingency in the History of Technology
259
16
John M. Staudenmaier
Contributors
275
2
Index
277