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A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience / edited by Carroll Pursell.
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English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Description
xviii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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T21 .H38 2005
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Technology
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United States
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Summary note
'A Hammer in Their Hands' collects newspaper & magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography & fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, & other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African Americans.
Notes
"Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-386) and index.
Contents
1. African medicine in the new world
2. New world skills
3. The persistence of craft
4. The new industrial age
5. Finding a place in the industrial age
6. Training for the industrial age
7. Inventors
8. The rural south
9. Industrial employment
10. The automobile
11. Learning to fly
12. War work
13. After the war
14. Setting a political agenda
15. Ties to Africa
16. Engineering careers
17. Accessing the information age
18. Technological troubles
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Index.
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ISBN
0262162253 ((alk. paper))
0262661993 ((pbk.))
9780262162258 ((alk. paper))
9780262661997 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2004057866
OCLC
56191833
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