Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

Technological Determinism In American Culture / Merritt Roe Smith -- Recourse Of Empire: Landscapes Of Progress In Technological America / Michael L. Smith -- Do Machines Make History? / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Technological Determinism Revisited / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Three Faces Of Technological Determinism / Bruce Bimber -- Technological Momentum / Thomas P. Hughes -- Retrieving Sociotechnical Change From Technological Determinism / Thomas J. Misa -- Determinism And Indeterminacy In The History Of Technology / Philip Scranton -- Technological Determinism In Agrarian Societies / Peter C. Perdue -- Determinism And Pre-industrial Technology / Richard W. Bulliet -- The Political And Feminist Dimensions Of Technological Determinism / Rosalind Williams -- The Idea Of Technology And Postmodern Pessimism / Leo Marx -- Rationality Versus Contingency In The History Of Tehchnology / John M. Staudenmaier. Edited By Merritt Roe Smith And Leo Marx. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.