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HIST 443. Modern American Technology and Culture


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 011898

This seminar examines the sociotechnical history of twentieth century American. It employs several analytical frameworks to examine the complex relationship between social and technological change, casting particular attention on the mass production ethos, the social meanings of everyday household technologies, the nuclear age, the space age, countercultural technology and the high tech age.