History of Technology Volume 4

"Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity. Yet current literature also emphasizes the durability of localism, heterogeneity and user choice. This collection investigates the apparent tension between these trends using case studies from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The History of Technology addresses tensions between material standards and process standards, explores the distinction between specifying standards and achieving convergence towards them, and examines some of the discontents generated by the reach of standards into 'everyday life'."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

שנה

2016

שפה

English

הוצאה

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

מהדורות

4

עמודים

192

ISBN

9781350017573

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata