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This REPRESENTATIVE schedule is posted to this website in accordance with state law and institutional mandates.
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ORIENTATION & INTRODUCTION (27 & 28 Aug)<\/strong><\/p>\n

27 Aug (Tue)<\/u><\/strong>:           Welcome and Introduction to the Course<\/strong><\/p>\n

28 Aug (Thu)<\/u><\/strong>:           “What is Technology? What is the History of Technology”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smil, \u201cIntroduction: Why Do We Need This Book?,\u201d 1\u201312<\/p>\n

Melvin Kranzberg, “Technology and History: Kranzberg’s Laws,” Technology and Culture <\/em>27: 3 (July 1986), 544\u2013560<\/p>\n

UNIT 1: FOOD (3 & 5 Sep)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smil, Chapter 2, \u201cUnderstanding Food Production: Eating Fossil Fuels,\u201d 44\u201375<\/p>\n

William Boyd, \u201cMaking Meat: Science, Technology, and American Poultry Production,\u201d Technology and Culture <\/em>42:2 (October 2001), 631-664 <\/p>\n

Susanne E. Freidberg, “The Triumph of the Egg,” Comparative Studies in Society and History <\/em>50:2 (April 2008), 400-423<\/p>\n

UNIT 2: COMMUNICATION (10 & 12 Sep)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, “Some Conjectures about the Impact of Printing on Western Society and Thought: A Preliminary Report,” The Journal of Modern History<\/em> 40:1 (March, 1968), 1-56 [skim]<\/p>\n

Susan J. Douglas, “The Turn Within: The Irony of Technology in a Globalized World,” American Quarterly<\/em> 58: 3 (September 2006), 619\u2013638<\/p>\n

UNIT3: PRODUCTION (17 & 19 Sep)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smil, Chapter 3, \u201cUnderstanding Our Material World: The Four Pillars of Modern Civilization,\u201d 76\u2013102<\/p>\n

Steven M. Beaudoin, “Current Debates in the Study of the Industrial Revolution,” OAH Magazine of History<\/em> 15: 1 (Fall, 2000), 7-13<\/p>\n

17 Sep (Tue): <\/u><\/strong>            Content Quiz #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNIT 4: ENERGY (26 & 28 Sep)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smil, Chapter 1 \u201cUnderstanding Energy: Fuels and Electricity,\u201d 13\u201343<\/p>\n

Brian C. Black, “Oil for Living: Petroleum and American Conspicuous Consumption,” The Journal of American History <\/em>99:1 (June 2012), 40-50<\/p>\n

Mark P. Mills, “Making Technological Miracles,” The New Atlantis<\/em> 52 (Spring 2017), 37\u201355<\/p>\n

REVIEW\/EXAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Oct (Tue)<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong>              Review\/Discussion<\/strong>
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3 Oct (Thu)<\/u><\/strong>:             Exam #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNIT 5: CONSUMERISM (8 & 10 Oct)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Friedel, “American Bottles: The Road to No Return,” Environmental History 19: 3 (July 2014), 505\u00ad\u2013527<\/p>\n

David E. Nye, “Technology and the Production of Difference,” American Quarterly <\/em>58:3 (September 2006), 597-618<\/p>\n

UNIT 6: ENGINEERING (19 Oct)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Brooklyn Bridge<\/em> (2003) BBC documentary film (55m)<\/p>\n

Carl W. Condit, “Sullivan’s Skyscrapers as the Expression of Nineteenth-Century Technology,” Technology and Culture<\/em> 1:1 (Winter, 1959), 78\u201393 <\/p>\n

 <\/strong>17 Oct<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong> Class does not meet<\/p>\n

UNIT 7: PLANNING (22 & 24 Oct)<\/strong><\/p>\n

John C. Scott, “Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams,” Chapter 6 in Seeing Like a <\/em>State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed<\/em> (Yale UP, 1998)<\/p>\n

Paul Josephson, “‘Projects of the Century’ in Soviet History: Large-Scale Technologies from Lenin to Gorbachev,” Technology and Culture<\/em> 36:3 (July 1995), 519\u2013559 <\/p>\n

22 Oct (Tue):<\/u><\/strong> Content Quiz #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNIT 8: HOME (29 & 31 Oct)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, “The ‘Industrial Revolution’ in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century,” Technology and Culture<\/em> 17:1 (January 1976), 1-23<\/p>\n

Jane Busch, “Cooking Competition: Technology on the Domestic Market in the 1930s,” Technology and Culture<\/em> 24:2 (April 1983), 222-245<\/p>\n

REVIEW\/EXAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

5 Nov (Tue)<\/u><\/strong>:             Review\/Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n

7 Nov (Thu)<\/u><\/strong>:             Exam #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNIT 9: TRANSPORTATION (12 & 14 Nov)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph Interrante, “The Road to Autopia: The Automobile and the Spatial Transformation of American Culture,” in Lewis and Goldstein, eds. The Automobile and American Culture<\/em>, 89-104<\/p>\n

Folke Kihlstedt, “The Automobile and the Transformation of the American House, 1910\u20131935,” in Lewis and Goldstein, eds. The Automobile and American Culture<\/em>, 160-175.<\/p>\n

UNIT 10: MEDICINE (19 & 21 Nov)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carl Elliot, “Tuskegee Truth Teller,” American Scholar<\/em> (Winter 2018) <\/p>\n

Spengler [David P. Goldman], “How America Made Its Children Crazy,” Asia Times<\/em>, 31 January 2012 <\/p>\n

Devorah Goldman, “Disarming Frontline Doctors,” The New Atlantis<\/em> 63 (Winter 2021), 138-154<\/p>\n

THANKSGIVING BREAK (26 & 28 Nov) <\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

UNIT 11: 4IR (3 & 5 Dec)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smil, Chapters 4 & 7, \u201cUnderstanding Globalization: Engines, Microchips, and Beyond,\u201d 103\u2013131 and “Understanding the Future: Between Apocalypse and Singularity,” 205- 229<\/p>\n

Virginia Bacay Watson, “The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Its Discontents:<\/p>\n

Governance, Big Tech, and the Digitization of Geopolitics” in Alexander L. Vuvin, ed., Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: Thinking about Security in the Indo-Pacific<\/em> (1 September 2020)<\/p>\n

 <\/strong>3 Dec (Tue):<\/u> <\/strong>Content Quiz #3<\/strong><\/p>\n

[TBD]: FINAL EXAM <\/strong><\/p>\n

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