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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. A nice, bright copy. ; Johns Hopkins Studies In The History Of Technology; B&W Illustrations; 9.3 X 6.3 X 0.8 inches; 255 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xiii, 255 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, historian Amy E. Slaton considers how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor. The technology of concrete buildings--little studied by historians of engineering, architecture, or industry--offers a remarkable case study in the modernization of American production. The use of concrete brought to construction the new procedures and priorities of mass production. These included a comprehensive application of science to commercial enterprise and vast redistributions of skills, opportunities, credit, and risk in the workplace. Reinforced concrete also changed the American landscape as building buyers embraced the architectural uniformity and simplicity to which the technology was best suited. Based on a wealth of data that includes university curricula, laboratory and company records, organizational proceedings, blueprints, and promotional materials as well as a rich body of physical evidence such as tools, instruments, building materials, and surviving reinforced-concrete buildings, this book tests the thesis that modern mass production in the United States came about not simply in answer to manufacturers' search for profits, but as a result of a complex of occupational and cultural agendas. / Amy Slaton is an assistant professor of history and politics at Drexel University." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION; Science and Commerce: Scenes from a Marriage; 1. Concrete Testing: The Academics at Work; 2. Science on Site: The Field-Testing and Regulation of Concrete Construction; 3. Science and the "Fair Deal": Standards, Specifications, and Commercial Ambition; 4. The Business of Building: Technological and Managerial Techniques in Concrete Construction; 5. What "Modern" Meant: Reinforced Concrete and the Social History of Functionalist Design; Conclusion. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

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Softcover. Silver wraps, black illustration and lettering; x, 518 pp; bw illustrations. The internationally renowned contributors go beyond both science wars and culture wars by exploring substantive links between systems of visual representation and knowledge in science and art. Contributors include Svetlana Alpers, Jonathan Crary, Arnold Davidson, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Simon Schaffer. Contents: Style as inclusion, style as exclusion / Carlo Ginzburg -- The affective properties of styles : an inquiry into analytical process and the inscription of meaning in art history / Irene J. Winter -- Style/type/standard : the production of technological resemblance / Amy Slaton -- Miracles of bodily transformation, or, how St. Francis received the stigmata / Arnold Davidson -- Lost knowledge, bodies of ignorance, and the poverty of taxonomy as illustrated by the curious fate of Flos pavonis, an abortifacient / Londa Schiebinger -- The sex of the machine : mechanomorphic art, new women, and Francis Picabia's neurasthenic cure / Caroline A. Jones -- Deanimations : maps and portraits of life itself / Donna Haraway -- Vision and cognition / Krzysztof Pomian -- Nature by design / Lorraine Daston -- Impressed images : reproducing wonders / Katharine Park -- Iconography between the history of art and the history of science : art, science, and the case of the urban bee / David Freedberg -- Hieronymus Bosch's world picture / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Judgement against objectivity / Peter Galison -- Eclectic subjectivity and the impossibility of female beauty / Jan Goldstein --Visualization and visibility / Joel Snyder -- The studio, the laboratory, and the vexations of art / Svetlana Alpers -- How to be iconophilic in art, science, and religion? / Bruno Latour -- On astronomical drawing / Simon Schaffer -- Attention and modernity in the nineteenth century / Jonathan Crary. Good+ (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep. Light shelfwear to wraps and block. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise clear.).

Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorAmy E. Slaton is a professor in the Department of History. She holds a PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught courses in the history of American science, technolo.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A collection of eight essays on the cultural and political history of industrial materials and the development of global capitalism.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 268 pages. 8.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on engineering programs in three settings-Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s-Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. She exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes.

Condizione: Fair. 1995 UMI Dissertation Services / A.E. Slaton, 6 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches tall paperbound in blue card covers with a typewritten title label to the front cover, viii, 366 pp. Slight rubbing to covers. Highlighting to the first 50 pages of text. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce work. OCLC (No. 857222837) locates only one copy at institutions worldwide - at the University of Pennsylvania. ~WWW~ This dissertation examines the emergence of the reinforced-concrete factory building, a vastly popular structure of great austerity and uniformity that helped to transform the American urban landscape after 1900. It explores the technological, social, and aesthetic agendas of the concrete experts and builders responsible for the building's proliferation. All of these agendas supported an ongoing role for technical expertise in standardized, large-scale construction. The spread of reinforced-concrete factory buildings represents a systematic importation of scientific knowledge into a commercial production context, and this thesis recounts the occupations and cultural visions established and displaced by this modern architectural form. Chapter One contains a historiographic overview of literature on technology and architecture and a brief history of reinforced concrete prior to 1900. Chapters Two and Three follow the work of early twentieth-century materials scientists as they established university departments for concrete research, taught succeeding generations of experts in the field, and adapted their knowledge for application in the daily routines of concrete construction. Chapter Four describes the adoption of reinforced-concrete technologies by factory building firms and their integration of concrete into hierarchical structures of occupational authority and opportunity on the construction site. Chapter Five recounts the understanding that factory builders held of the modern functionalist aesthetic, associating their views with those of forward-looking architects and critics of the day. It also places this new architectural sensibility in the broader context of a culture ready and willing to celebrate in its architecture the accomplishments of technology and commerce. Chapter Six provides conclusions and a summary of the dissertation.

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