Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939

by John M. Jordan

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In this interdisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs--bridges, radio broadcasting, airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers, and electrical power--inspired social and political reformers to borrow the language and logic of engineering in the early twentieth century, bringing terms like efficiency, technocracy,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807821233

ISBN13:9780807821237

Release Date:September 2010

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Engineering History Social Science Social Sciences Technology

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