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History of technology. Vol. 28, 2008 /
Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity. Yet current literature also emphasizes the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
Ã2008.
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| Colección: | History of Technology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity. Yet current literature also emphasizes the durability of localism, heterogeneity and user choice. This collection investigates the apparent tension between these trends using case studies from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The History of Technology addresses tensions between material standards and process standards, explor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 171 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781441141217 1441141219 |