This is a collection of essays focusing on the spread and elaboration of American technology, and on the men and women who shaped it. Beginning with technology

American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying Am

An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land. After 1776, the

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