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Books in the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology series

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  • - Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
    by Angela Lakwete
    £25.99 - 42.49

    Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized.

  • by Takashi (Assistant Professor Nishiyama
    £44.49

    Nishiyama's work offers lessons to policymakers interested in how a country can recover successfully after defeat.

  • - Managing Science in the Internet World
    by Thomas J. (University of Minnesota) Misa
    £27.99

  • by Andre (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Millard
    £29.99

    From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues.

  • - Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson
    by Rayvon (Purdue University) Fouche
    £23.49

    Describes the struggles of three African American men who try to balance racial identity with a desire to be judged solely on the merit of their inventive work. This book provides a nuanced view of African American contributors to technology during a period of rapid industrialization.

  • - Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire
    by Roberta J. (University of Oklahoma) Magnusson
    £37.99

    Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in mediaeval cities and monasteries, this is a study of water technology in the Middle Ages. Roberta J. Magnusson challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance.

  • - Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865
    by Ross (University of Vermont) Thomson
    £52.99

    Thomson's impressive study of the infrastructure that fueled and supported the young country's economic and industrial successes will interest students of economic, technological, and business history.

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