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Engineers of happy land : technology and nationalism in a colony /
Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that people use and think abou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2002]
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| Colección: | Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Language as Asphalt
- Bare Feet
- Hard and Clean Roads
- Struggle for the Roads
- Language-game
- Bahasa Indonesia, "Indonesian Language"
- 2. Towers
- Homes on Wheels and Floating Homes
- Cities
- Camps
- Towers
- 3. From Darkness to Light
- City of Light
- Dactyloscopy
- Floodlight
- Sublime
- Mirror
- 4. Indonesian Dandy
- Dolls
- Modern Times
- Nationalism and the Birth of the Dandy
- Death of the Dandy
- Parade
- 5. Let Us Become Radio Mechanics
- Metaphor
- Thing
- Voice
- Closed Circuits
- Mechanics. Epilogue: Only the Deaf Can Hear Well
- Sjahrir Recalled
- Memories of Holland
- Time in Three Dimensions
- Bacteria
- Splendid Radio
- Mouth of Karundeng
- Sportsmen-Dandies-Jokers-Engineers
- Ear Culture
- Happy End.