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Paperback New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815-1914 Book

ISBN: 0521526035

ISBN13: 9780521526036

New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815-1914

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New Profession, Old Order explores the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany. It offers an explanation of why the engineering profession is so successful in transforming the physical world, did not achieve the professional power, cohesion, and prestige that its technological accomplishments would seem to have warranted. On the one hand, engineers were agents of modern instrumental rationality, specialization, practical...

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