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Technology in Modern German History - 1800 to the Present (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,215
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Technology in Modern German History - 1800 to the Present (Hardcover): Karsten Uhl

Technology in Modern German History - 1800 to the Present (Hardcover)

Karsten Uhl

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series

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People often associate postwar Germany with technology and with its products of mass consumption, such as luxury cars. Even pop music, most notably Kraftwerk (literally 'power station') with songs such as Autobahn, Radioactivity or We are the Robots, disseminates the stereotype of a close link between German culture and technology. Technology in Modern German History explores various forms of technology in 200 years of German history and explains how technology has been fundamental to the shaping of modern Germany. The book investigates the role technology played in transforming Germany's culture, society and politics during the 19th and 20th centuries. Key topics covered include the different stages of industrialization, the growth of networked cities, and the triumph of a teleological narrative of technology as progress. Moreover, it provides a critical revision of the history of high technology which reveals how high-tech euphoria determined certain paths in history regardless of whether the respective technology proved to be successful. In its second part, the volume introduces new avenues in scholarship. Karsten Uhl examines neglected areas, such as rural technologies or the often-overlooked importance of everyday technologies: How did consumers or workers use new technologies? How did they appropriate and modify them? Lastly, the book considers the final decades of the 20th century and asks if they provided a significant new quality of technological change: To what degree and effects did computerization transform professional and private life in Germany? In culture and politics, reinforced by the German variety of environmentalism, the idea of progress was challenged, as the once prevailing vision of progress gave way to new apprehensions of uncertainty evident to this day. Technology in Modern German History brings fascinating insight into a much neglected area of German history for students and scholars alike.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series
Release date: February 2022
Authors: Karsten Uhl
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-05320-5
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
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LSN: 1-350-05320-1
Barcode: 9781350053205

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