Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world.
Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT
How code shapes power and inequality across technology, governance, and global political economies.
Code—whether software routines, legal frameworks, or informal social norms—shapes the world around us in profound and often invisible ways. In Just Code, editors Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz bring ......
A history of steamboats and railroads in the United States prior to the Civil War. In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United States underwent an extraordinary transformation. Steamboats and railroads turned long-distance travel from an arduous undertaking into a regularized commodity: travel became something that ......
Essential Writings on Software Preservation and Game Histories
A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games. Since the early 2000s, Henry E. Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations, establishing ......
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is. We take for granted this ubiquitous substance, which both literally and figuratively comprises much of modern civilization's constructed environment; yet the story of its ......
Anti-Tech explores the ideas and influence of a figure who terrorized America for nearly two decades: Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. From a cabin in Montana, Kaczynski waged a seventeen-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured twenty-three. From a prison cell, he spent the next twenty-seven years building a movement. His ......
A sweeping technological and environmental history of Florida from its earliest peoples to the space age Over the past 14,000 years in Florida, human ingenuity and the natural world have influenced one another in unique ways. In this book, Brad Massey offers a survey of Florida's past through the lens of technology and the natural environment. ......
Henry and Amelia Champlin and America's Maritime Ascendancy
Faith and Fortune is a history of the United States of America between 1780 and 1880. Using the love story of Captain Henry Champlin and his wife Amelia as the narrative vehicle, this book illuminates a remarkable yet forgotten story of the transatlantic packet ships that sailed between New York and London. These large, swift moving vessels, built ......
