David Edgerton
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David Edgerton
The Shock Of The Old
It challenges the idea that we live in an era of ever increasing change and, interweaving political, economic and cultural history, teaches us to think critically about technology.
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David Edgerton
England and the Aeroplane
Reverses received wisdom, showing that the aeroplane is a central and revealing aspect of an unfamiliar English nation: a warfare state dedicated to technology, industry, empire and military power.
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David Edgerton
David (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London) Edgerton
Warfare State
A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry.
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David Edgerton
David (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London) Edgerton
Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870–1970
The place of science and technology in the British economy and society is widely seen as critical to our understanding of the British 'decline'. There is a long tradition of characterising post-1870 Britain by its lack of enthusiasm for science and by the low social status of the practitioners of technology.
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