Slaton Amy E (27 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xiii, 255 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, historian Amy E. Slaton considers how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor. The technology of concrete buildings--little studied by historians of engineering, architecture, or industry--offers a remarkable case study in the modernization of American production. The use of concrete brought to construction the new procedures and priorities of mass production. These included a comprehensive application of science to commercial enterprise and vast redistributions of skills, opportunities, credit, and risk in the workplace. Reinforced concrete also changed the American landscape as building buyers embraced the architectural uniformity and simplicity to which the technology was best suited. Based on a wealth of data that includes university curricula, laboratory and company records, organizational proceedings, blueprints, and promotional materials as well as a rich body of physical evidence such as tools, instruments, building materials, and surviving reinforced-concrete buildings, this book tests the thesis that modern mass production in the United States came about not simply in answer to manufacturers' search for profits, but as a result of a complex of occupational and cultural agendas. / Amy Slaton is an assistant professor of history and politics at Drexel University." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION; Science and Commerce: Scenes from a Marriage; 1. Concrete Testing: The Academics at Work; 2. Science on Site: The Field-Testing and Regulation of Concrete Construction; 3. Science and the "Fair Deal": Standards, Specifications, and Commercial Ambition; 4. The Business of Building: Technological and Managerial Techniques in Concrete Construction; 5. What "Modern" Meant: Reinforced Concrete and the Social History of Functionalist Design; Conclusion. Size: 8vo. Collectible.…

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Softcover. Silver wraps, black illustration and lettering; x, 518 pp; bw illustrations. The internationally renowned contributors go beyond both science wars and culture wars by exploring substantive links between systems of visual representation and knowledge in science and art. Contributors include Svetlana Alpers, Jonathan Crary, Arnold Davidson, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Simon Schaffer. Contents: Style as inclusion, style as exclusion / Carlo Ginzburg -- The affective properties of styles : an inquiry into analytical process and the inscription of meaning in art history / Irene J. Winter -- Style/type/standard : the production of technological resemblance / Amy Slaton -- Miracles of bodily transformation, or, how St. Francis received the stigmata / Arnold Davidson -- Lost knowledge, bodies of ignorance, and the poverty of taxonomy as illustrated by the curious fate of Flos pavonis, an abortifacient / Londa Schiebinger -- The sex of the machine : mechanomorphic art, new women, and Francis Picabia's neurasthenic cure / Caroline A. Jones -- Deanimations : maps and portraits of life itself / Donna Haraway -- Vision and cognition / Krzysztof Pomian -- Nature by design / Lorraine Daston -- Impressed images : reproducing wonders / Katharine Park -- Iconography between the history of art and the history of science : art, science, and the case of the urban bee / David Freedberg -- Hieronymus Bosch's world picture / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Judgement against objectivity / Peter Galison -- Eclectic subjectivity and the impossibility of female beauty / Jan Goldstein --Visualization and visibility / Joel Snyder -- The studio, the laboratory, and the vexations of art / Svetlana Alpers -- How to be iconophilic in art, science, and religion? / Bruno Latour -- On astronomical drawing / Simon Schaffer -- Attention and modernity in the nineteenth century / Jonathan Crary. Good+ (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep. Light shelfwear to wraps and block. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise clear.).…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 200 years. Whether given utility as building parts, fabrics, pharmaceuticals, or foodstuffs, whether seen by their proponents as human-made or 'found in nature,' materials result from the designation of some matter as both knowable and worth knowing about. In following these determinations we learn that the production of physical novelty under industrial, imperial and other cultural conditions has historically accomplished a huge range of social effects, from accruals of status and wealth to demarcations of bodies and geographies. Among other cases, New Materials traces the beneficent self-identity of Quaker asylum planners who devised soundless metal cell locks in the early 19th century, and the inculcation of national pride attending Taiwanese carbon-fiber bicycle parts in the 21st; the racialized labor organizations promoted by California orange breeders in the 1910s, and bureaucratized distributions of blame for deadly high-rise fires a century later. Across eras and global regions New Materials reflects circumstances not made clear when technological innovation is explained solely as a by-product of modernizing impulses or critiqued simply as a craving for profit. Whether establishing the efficacy of nano-scale pharmaceuticals or the tastiness of farmed catfish, proponents of new materials enact complex political ideologies. In highlighting their actors' conceptions of efficiency, certainty, safety, pleasure, pain, faith and identity, the authors reveal that to produce a 'new material' is invariably to preserve other things, to sustain existing values and social structures.…

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorAmy E. Slaton is a professor in the Department of History. She holds a PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught courses in the history of American science, technolo.

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on engineering programs in three settings-Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s-Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. She exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Despite the educational and professional advances made by minorities in recent decades, African Americans remain woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Even at its peak, in 2000, African American representation in engineering careers reached only 5.7 percent, while blacks made up 15 percent of the U.S. population. Some forty-five years after the Civil Rights Act sought to eliminate racial differences in education and employment, what do we make of an occupational pattern that perpetually follows the lines of race?Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering pursues this question and its ramifications through historical case studies. Focusing on engineering programs in three settings-in Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s-Amy E. Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. Her study reveals aspects of admissions criteria and curricular emphases that work against proportionate black involvement in many engineering programs. Slaton exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes-ideas and practices that are as limiting for the field of engineering as they are for the goal of greater racial parity in the profession. Focusing on engineering programs in three settingsMaryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990sSlaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. She exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…