// Technological Change

Daniel Boorstin.

    The Republic of Technology

. 1978.

David Edgerton.

    The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900.

. 2007. This book is a beautiful explication of the new history of technology methodology. It’s also a lot more fun to read than that description made it sound. A must read if you want to understand technological change.

Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, David Strong, Eds.

    Technology and the Good Life?

. 2000.

Jonathan R.T. Hughes.

    The Governmental Habit Redux: Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present.

1991.

Paul Klemmer, Ed.

    Innovation and the Environment

. 1999.

Ronald R. Kline.

    Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America

. 2000.

Peter Kroes and Anthonie Meijers, Eds.

    The Empirical Turn in the Philosophy of Technology

. 2000.

Ralph Landau and N. Bruce Hannay, Eds.

    Taxation, Technology and the U.S. Economy

. 1981.

Alan Marcus and Howard Segal.

    Technology in America: A Brief History

. 1989. A simple, but nuanced primer on technologies used in North America.

Joel Mokyr.

    Twenty Five Centuries of Technological Change

.1990.

Arthur Molella, Joyce Bedi, Eds.

    Inventing for the Environment

. 2003.

David F. Noble.

    America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism

. 1977.

Nathan Rosenberg.

    Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics

. 1982.

Devendra Sahal.

    Patterns of Technological Innovation

. 1981.

Howard P. Segal.

    Technological Utopianism in American Culture

. 2005.

Paul Stoneman.

    The Economics of Technological Diffusion

. 2002.

Thomas Tierney.

    The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture

. 1993.

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