TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pursell,Carroll
TI  - A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience
T2  - The MIT Press Series
SN  - 9780262281959
AV  - T21.H38 2005 
U1  - 608.9/96/073 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Technology-United States-History
KW  - Technology-Social aspects-United States-History
KW  - African Americans-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Introduction -- I COLONIAL ERA -- 1 African Medicine in the New World -- 2 New World Skills -- II ANTEBELLUM YEARS -- 3 The Persistence of Craft -- 4 The New Industrial Age -- III WAR, RECONSTRUCTION, AND SEGREGATION -- 5 Finding a Place in the Industrial Age -- IV THE PROGRESSIVE ERA -- 6 Training for the Industrial Age -- 7 Inventors -- V BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS -- 8 The Rural South -- 9 Industrial Employment -- 10 The Automobile -- VI World War II and the Cold War -- 11 Learning to Fly -- 12 War Work -- 13 After the War -- VII THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND -- 14 Setting a Political Agenda -- 15 Ties to Africa -- 16 Engineering Careers -- 17 Accessing the Information Age -- 18 Technological Troubles -- Further Readings -- Index
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