Rewiring the 'Nation' - The Place of Technology in American Studies

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn de la Peña is an associate professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis. Klappentext Scholars working among an array of "technologies" and "Americas" were invited to contribute to this special bound issue of American Quarterly to interrogate why one might study technology in a post-Eurocentric, post-national American Studies. This volume offers a re-reading of the narrative of U.S. technologies as we move beyond celebrations of exceptional tinkerers and a deterministic machine-driven sense of progress to a more complex understanding of the opportunities and responsibilities that befall a nation that interweaves its identities, labors, and creative cultures with its machines. This volume puts a variety of conversations in dialogue, including the present and historical, the national and international, the material and theoretical, and the critical and celebratory.

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• Authors: Carolyn (EDT)/ Vaidhyanathan De La Pe¤a, Carolyn (University of California At D De La Pena, Carolyn Thomas Vaidhyanathan De La Pena, Carolyn La Peña
• Assisted by: Carolyn De La Pena (Editor), Carolyn T. de La Pena (Editor), Carolyn de la Peña (Editor), Carolyn La Pena (Editor), Carolyn La Peña (Editor), Siva Vaidhyanathan (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2007
• EAN: 9780801886515
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8651-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Special Issue of American Quar; Special Issue of American Quar
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, SCIENCE / History, Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social