History of Technology Volume 28

by Ian Inkster

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082643875X
• ISBN13: 9780826438751
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"