Table of Contents

Technological determinism in American culture, Merritt Roe Smith; recourse of empire - landscapes of progress in technological America, Michael L. Smith; do machines make history?, Robert L. Heilbroner; technological determinism revisited, Robert L. Heilbroner; three faces of technological determinism, Bruce Bimber; technological momentum, Thomas P. Hughes; retrieving sociotechnical change from technological determinism, Thomas J. Misa; determinism and indeterminacy in the history of technology, Philip Scranton; technological determinism in Agrarian societies, Peter C. Perdue; determinism and pre-industrial technology, Richard W. Bulliet; the political and feminist dimensions of technological determinism, Rosalind Williams; the idea of "technology" and postmodern pessimism, Leo Marx; rationality versus contingency in the history of technology, John M. Staudenmaier.