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An excellent History of Science Society bibliography

A Select Bibliography:

Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch, editors, The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (Cambridge: MIT
Press, 1987).

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (Basic Books, 1983).

Cutcliffe, Stephen H. and Terry S. Reynolds, Technology and American History: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).

Graham, Loren R., The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).

Hounshell, David A., From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1984).

Hughes, Thomas P., American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm (New York: Penguin Books, 1989).

Jasanoff, Sheila, et. al., editors, Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995).

Josephson, Paul R., “Rockets, Reactors, and Soviet Culture” in Science and the Soviet Social Order (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990).

Kevles, Daniel J., The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971).

Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970).

McDougall, Walter A., . . . The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).

Schatzberg, Eric, “Ideology and Technical Choice: The Decline of the Wooden Airplane in the United States, 1920–1945,” Technology and Culture, vol. 35, no. 1 (January 1994), pp. 34–69.

Truax, Robert C., “Shuttles—What Price Elegance?,” Astronautics and Aeronautics (June 1970), pp. 22–23.

Vincenti, Walter G., “The Retractable Airplane Landing Gear and the Northrop ‘Anomaly’: Variation-Selection and the Shaping of Technology,” Technology and Culture, vol. 35, no. 1 (January
1994), pp. 1–33.

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