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Item Details
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CONSUMERS, TINKERERS, REBELS
THE PEOPLE WHO SHAPED EUROPE |
| Volume: |
2013 |
| By: |
Ruth Oldenziel, Mikael Hard |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£65.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230308023 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230308022 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2013 |
| Series: |
Making Europe |
| Pages: |
417 |
| Description: |
Spotlighting technology users, this book presents a European history in which ordinary people wielded the power to affect designs and innovations. The authors show that mechanization has not taken command of our lives in the last 150 years. Instead, user movements have appropriated technology and shaped Europe in their own image. |
| Synopsis: |
Who has decided how Europeans have dressed and dwelled? Traveled and dined? Worked and played? Who, in fact, can be credited with the shaping of Europe? Certainly inventors, engineers, and politicians played their parts. But in the making of Europe, consumers, tinkerers, and rebels were an unrecognized force-until now. In this book, historians Ruth Oldenziel and Mikael Hard spotlight the people who "made" Europe-by appropriating technology, protesting for and against it. Using examples from Britain and the Continent, the authors illustrate the conflicts that accompanied the modern technologies, from the sewing machine to the bicycle, the Barbie doll to personal computers. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of how Europeans have lived, from the 1850s to the current century. The Making Europe series was awarded the Freeman Award by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) in 2014, in recognition of its significant contribution to the interaction of science and technology studies with the study of innovation. |
| Illustrations: |
biography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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