An Engineered World - The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity

How engineering as a modern profession emerged as a global phenomenon--and why its development and expansion are so critical to our understanding of twentieth-century world history. Tens of thousands of university-trained engineers and other professionalized technical experts, a few famous but most anonymous, became critical to the technological, organizational, and political development of global capitalism and socialism in the twentieth century. This was the case in Western Europe and the United States, and it was also true in colonial settings and independent countries around the world, where the institutions of modern engineering were often established in the same era. This collection edited by Edward Beatty and Israel Solares presents eight case studies of engineers’ work and interactions situated in local, national, or regional places but always intersecting with global influences. Contributors: Edward Beatty, Marco Bertilorenzi, Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, Mark Hendrickson, Doug Jones, Elisabeth Köll, Aparajith Ramnath, Israel G. Solares, Stephen Tuffnell, Mikael Wolfe

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• Authors: Edward Beatty, Beatty Edward, Israel G. Solares, Israel G Solares, Israel G. Solares
• Assisted by: Beatty Edward (Editor), Israel G. Solares (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.11.2025
• EAN: 9780262553353
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55335-3
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Engineering Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Globalization, SCIENCE / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Globalization, History of Science, Engineering: general