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- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780300061062
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300061064
ISBN-13
9780300061062
eBay Product ID (ePID)
97769
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Grammar of the Machine : Technical Literacy and Early Industrial Expansion in the United States
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Subject
Vocational, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
94-041615
Dewey Edition
20
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
607.7/3
Synopsis
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the American economy moved toward a manufacturing base and mass production, creating a demand for a literacy that encompassed not only the traditional alphabetic form of expression but also scientific and mathematical notation and spatial and graphic representation. How did the world of learning respond to this demand? What kinds of educational institutions, teachers, textbooks, and patterns of instruction emerged? Edward Stevens, Jr., describes the important technological changes that took place in antebellum America and the challenges they posed for education. Investigating the instruction, curricula, and textbooks used in the common schools, in the mechanics' institutes, and, specifically, at the Troy Female Seminary and the Rensselaer School in upstate New York, he demonstrates how advocates of technical literacy attempted to teach new skills. Stevens shows that the tensions between the liberal and the vocational, between a culture of print and a nonverbal culture of experience, persisted in technical education through the first half of the nineteenth century but were resolved temporarily by a common moral vision.
LC Classification Number
T73.S63 1995
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- t***e (72)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseTerrific vendor. Shipping and packaging were great, item was as described, and price was good. Highly recommended.St. Augustine, Against the Academics-John O'Meara(tr. 1950 ed. Cloth. (#285414858384)
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