Fox Robert (ed.). Technological Change: Methods and Themes in the History of Technology

London: Routledge, 1996. — 288 p. — (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) — ISBN-10: 3718657929; ISBN-13: 978-3718657926.Technological Change gathers together examples of the best current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting other papers which reflect the 'state of the art' in key areas of historical debate. The volume emphasises the need both to establish a common forum for theoretical and empirical research and also to delineate the shared concerns of these two treatments, which are too often reflected as conflicting rather than mutually supportive approaches to the writing of the history of technology.ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Methods and themes in the history of technology. Robert FoxModelsThe social construction of technology: a review. Trevor Pinch
Towards a history of technological thought. Antoine Picon
Bodies, fields, and factories: technologies and understandings in the age of revolutions. John V. Pickstone
Evolution and technological change: a new metaphor for economic history? Joel MokyrMedieval Technology and Social ChangeLynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change after thirty years. Bert Hall
Medieval technology and the historians: the evidence for the mill. Richard HoltRethinking the Industrial RevolutionLaw, espionage, and the transfer of technology from eighteenth century Britain. John Harris
Concepts of invention and the patent controversy in Victorian Britain. Christine MacLeod
Technological change during the first industrial revolution: the paradigm case of textiles, 1688-1851. Patrick O'Brien, Trevor Griffiths, and Philip HuntTechnology, Politics, and National CulturesTechnology transfer and industrial transformation: an interpretation of the pattern of economic development circa 1870-1914. Ian Inkster
The Japan that can say No: the rise of techno-nationalism and its impact on technological change. Morris F. Low
Politics and the passion for production: France and the USSR in the 1930s. Yves Cohen
Managing complexity: interdisciplinary advisory committees. Thomas P. Hughes
How do we know the properties of artefacts? Applying the sociology of knowledge to technology. Donald MacKenzieIndex