Major Problems in the History of American Technology (Major Problems in American History (Wadsworth)) [Paperback]

Merritt Smith (Editor), Gregory Clancey (Editor), Thomas Paterson (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0669354724 | ISBN-13: 978-0669354720 | Publication Date: December 29, 1997 | Edition: 1

This entry in the Major Problems in American History series examines the history of technology in America, from colonial times to the present. Each of the 14 chapters contains an introduction, secondary readings, documents, headnotes, and suggested readings.

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Thomas G. Paterson, professor emeritus of history at the University of Connecticut, graduated from the University of New Hampshire (B.A., 1963) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1968). He is the author of Soviet-American Confrontation (1973), Meeting the Communist Threat (1988), On Every Front (1992), Contesting Castro (1994), America Ascendant (with J. Garry Clifford, 1995), and A People and a Nation (with Mary Beth Norton et al., 2001). Tom is also the editor of Cold War Critics (1971), Kennedy's Quest for Victory (1989), Imperial Surge (with Stephen G. Rabe, 1992), The Origins of the Cold War (with Robert McMahon, 1999), Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (with Michael J. Hogan, 2004), and Major Problems in American Foreign Relations (with Dennis Merrill, 2010). With Bruce Jentleson, he served as senior editor for the Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations (1997). A microfilm edition of The United States and Castro's Cuba, 1950sÂ-1970s: The Paterson Collection appeared in 1999. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of American History and Diplomatic History. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he has directed National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers. In 2000 the New England History Teachers Association recognized his excellence in teaching and mentoring with the Kidger Award. Besides visits to many American campuses, Tom has lectured in Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Russia, and Venezuela. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, which in 2008 honored him with the Laura and Norman Graebner Award for "lifetime achievement" in scholarship, service, and teaching. A native of Oregon, Tom is now informally associated with Southern Oregon University.

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• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; 1 edition (December 29, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0669354724
• ISBN-13: 978-0669354720
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
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Gregory Clancey is an Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. He was born and grew up in Maine (US) and received his PhD from the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at MIT. He has been a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at the University of Tokyo and a Lars Hierta Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Clancey is currently Leader of the STS Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore, and Master of Tembusu College at NUS. His book 'Earthquake Nation' won the Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society from the History of Technology in 2007, and Clancey was subsequently elected to serve on that society's executive council. His research and writing interests range from the politics of natural disaster and states of emergency, to modern architecture and urbanism. He is currently at work on a new critical history of architectural modernism entitled 'Gropius' Carpenter'.

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