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History of Science in the United States: The Nineteenth Century

Subject Bibliography of Books and Dissertations (ca.1980 - )

Sociology (Field of Study) –

Technology and Invention (Social Aspects and Relations)

[Bibliography main page] Sociology (Field of Study)
SUBJECT	CITATION
Sociology (field of study)	Bannister, Robert C. Sociology & Scientism: The American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940. 302pp. Chapel Hill / London: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Sociology (field of study)	Fine, William F. Progressive Evolutionism and American Sociology, 1890-1920. (Studies in American History and Culture, 8). 302pp. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1979.
Sociology (field of study)	Fuhrman, Ellsworth R. The Sociology of Knowledge in America, 1883-1915. 268pp. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1980.
SOCIOLOGY (FIELD OF STUDY)	Garavaglia, Brian. “A Treatise on the Development of American Sociology through the Examination of the First Five Presidents of the American Sociological Society.” DAI 65/04 (2004): 1564-A. (Doct. diss., Wayne State University, 2004)
Sociology (field of study)	Greek, Cecil E. “The Religious Roots of American Sociology.” DAI 44/12 (1984): 3833-A. (Doct. diss., New School for Social Research, 1983)
Sociology (field of study)	Hinkle, Roscoe C. Founding Theory of American Sociology, 1881-1915. 376pp. Boston / London and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.
Sociology (field of study)	Howard, Ronald L. A Social History of American Family Sociology, 1865-1940. Edited by John H. Moguey and Louis Th. van Leeuwen. (Contributions in Family Studies No. 4). 168pp. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Sociology (field of study)	Vidich, Arthur J. and Stanford M. Lyman. American Sociology: Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions. 380pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Sociology (field of study)	Williams, Vernon J., Jr. From a Caste to a Minority: Changing Attitudes of American Sociologists toward Afro-Americans, 1896-1945. 202pp. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Sociology (field of study): Biographical	Baldwin, John D. George Herbert Mead: A Unifying Theory for Sociology. (Masters of Social Theory, 6). 168pp. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1986.
Sociology (field of study): Biographical	Rafferty, Edward Charles. “Apostle of Human Progress: The Life of Lester Frank Ward, 1841-1913.” DAI 60/05 (1999): 1730-A. (Doct. diss., Brown University, 1999)
Sociology (field of study): Institutional	Lewis, J. David and Richard L. Smith. American Sociology and Pragmatism: Mead, Chicago Sociology, and Symbolic Interaction. 356pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Sociology (field of study): Institutional	Wallace, Robert W. “The Institutionalization of a New Discipline: The Case of Sociology at Columbia University, 1891-1931.” DAI 51/03 (1990): 1022-A. (Doct. diss., Columbia University, 1989)
[Bibliography main page] Soil Science
SUBJECT	CITATION
Soil science: Institutional	Beatty, Marvan T. Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: A History of the Department, 1889-1989. 141pp. Madison: Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin, 1991.
SOIL SCIENCE: Institutional	Helms, Douglas, Anne B. Effland, and Durana, Patricia J., editors. Profiles in the History of U.S. Soil Survey. 331pp. Ames: Iowa State Press, 2002.
[Bibliography main page] Statistics and Actuarial Science
SUBJECT	CITATION
Statistics and actuarial science	Dobbertin, Gerald Frederick. “Statistics and Social Science: The Introduction of Inferential Statistics into Higher Education in America from 1890 to 1930.” DAI 42/06 (1981): 2522-A. (Doct. diss., Michigan State University, 1981)
Statistics and actuarial science	Hunter, Patti Wilger. “The Formation of a Discipline: Mathematical Statistics in the United States in the 19th and 20th Centuries.” DAI 57/10 (1997): 4516-A. (Doct. diss., University of Virginia, 1997)
Statistics and actuarial science	Previts, Gary John and Barbara Dubis Merino. A History of Accountancy in the United States: The Cultural Significance of Accounting. Rev., enl. edition of A History of Accounting in America. 1979. (Historical perspectives on business enterprise series). 577pp. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.
Statistics and actuarial science: Biographical	Kellam, William Porter. Episodes in the Life of Charles Francis McCay: Academic, Actuary, Author, and Businessman. 133pp. Athens, Ga.: 1983.
Statistics and actuarial science: Institutional	Anderson, Margo J. The American Census: A Social History. 257pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.
[Bibliography main page] Surgery
SUBJECT	CITATION
Surgery	Earle, A. Scott, editor. Surgery in America: From the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century. 2nd edition. 408pp. New York: Praeger, 1983. (First edition 1965)
SURGERY	Rutkow, Ira M. Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine. 394pp. New York: Random House, 2005.
Surgery: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Edmondson, James W. American Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History of Their Manufacture and a Directory of Instrument Makers to 1900. 352pp. San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1997.
SURGERY: Biographical	Brinton, John H. Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton: Civil War Surgeon, 1861-1865. (Shawnee Classics Series). 361pp. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. (Reprint of 1914 edition.)
Surgery: Biographical	Kim, Ock-Joo Cho. “The Integration of Science with the Healing Art: Harvey Cushing’s Development of Neurosurgery, 1896-1912.” DAI 59/05 (1998): 1743-A. (Doct. diss., University of Minnesota, 198)
Surgery: Biographical	Koonce, Donald B., editor. Doctor to the Front: The Recollections of Confederate Surgeon Thomas Fanning Wood, 1861-1865. (Voices of the Civil War). 252pp. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
Surgery: Biographical	Lindsay, William A. The Journals of William A. Lindsay: An Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Physician’s Surgical Cases. Edited by Katherine Mandusic McDonnell. 216pp. Indianpolis: Indiana State Historical Society, 1989.
Surgery: Biographical	Schmitz, Robert L. and Timothy T. Oh, editors. The Remarkable Surgical Practice of John Benjamin Murphy. Includes bibliography of John B. Murphy, pp. [167]-199. 207pp. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Surgery: Institutional	McDermott, William V. Surgery at New England Deaconess Hospital, 1896-1985, and Its Roots in the Harvard Surgical Service at the Boston City Hospital. 204pp. Boston: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1995.
Surgery: Institutional	Ravitch, Mark. A Century of Surgery: The History of the American Surgical Associaton. 2 vols. Philadelphia, Penn.: Lippincott, 1981.
Surgery: Sources	Surgical and Dental Instrument Catalogues from the Civil War Era: Snowden and Brother (1860) and John Weiss and Son (1863). (Norman surgery series; no. 10). 1 v. (various pagings). San Francisco: Norman Pub. in association with the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1997.
[Bibliography main page] Technology and Invention
SUBJECT	CITATION
Technology and invention	Bonham, Julie Carol. “Cotton Textile Technology in America: Three Centuries of Evolutionary Change.” DAI 46/11 (1986): 3467-A. (Doct. diss., Brown University, 1979)
Technology and invention	Bradley, Joseph. Guns for the Tsar: American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia. 274pp. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1990.
Technology and invention	Britton, Karen Gerhardt. Bale O’ Cotton: The Mechanical Art of Cotton Ginning. (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, no. 43). 138pp. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992.
Technology and invention	Burt, McKinley, Jr. African-American Inventors. 149pp. Portland, Ore.: National Books Co., 2000.
Technology and invention	Cutcliffe, Stephen H. and Terry S. Reynolds, editors. Technology & American History: A Historical Anthology from Technology & Culture. 448pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION	Evans, Harold, Gail Buckland, and David Lefer. They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine, Two Centuries of Innovators. 496pp. New York: Little, Brown, 2004.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION	Gross, Ernie. Advances and Innovations in American Daily Life, 1600s–1930s. 380pp. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002.
Technology and invention	Hawke, David Freeman. Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology, 1776-1860. 308pp. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
Technology and invention	Hindle, Brooke, editor. Material Culture of the Wooden Age. 394pp. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Sleepy Hollow Press, 1981.
Technology and invention	Hindle, Brooke. Emulation and Invention. 224pp. New York: New York University Press, 1981.
Technology and invention	Hughes, Thomas P. American Genesis: A Century of Innovation and Technical Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. 529pp. New York: Viking, 1989.
Technology and invention	James, Portia P. The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation, 1619-1930. 110pp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the Anacostia Museum, 1989.
Technology and invention	Kornblith, Gary J. “From Artisans to Businessmen: Master Mechanics in New England, 1789-1850.” DAI 43/12 (1983): 4012-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 1983)
Technology and invention	Lakwete, Angela. “Cotton Ginning in America, 1780-1860.” DAI 58/01 (1997): 264-A. (Doct. diss., University of Delaware, 1997)
Technology and invention	Marcus, Alan I. and Howard P. Segal. Technology in America: A Brief History. 380pp. San Diego, New York, and Chicago: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
Technology and invention	Marcus, Alan I. and Howard P. Segal. Technology in America: A Brief History. 2nd ed. 400pp. Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College, 1999.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION	McCaul, Edward B., Jr. “Rapid Technological Innovation: The Evolution of the Artillery Fuze During the American Civil War.” DAI 66/11 (2006): -A. (Doct. diss., Ohio State University, 2005)
Technology and invention	McGaw, Judith A., editor. Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850. 482pp. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION	Mullen, Robert A. Recasting a Craft: St. Louis Typefounders Respond to Industrialization. 197pp. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
Technology and invention	Pursell, Carroll W., editor. Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas. 264pp. Cambridge, Mass,: MIT Press, 1981. (Originally published in 1979 in Voice of America Series for distribution outside U.S.A.)
Technology and invention	Pursell, Carroll W., editor. Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas. 2nd edition. 319pp. Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 1990.
Technology and invention	Pursell, Carroll W., editor. Two Hundred Years of American Technology: The SHOT Bicentennial Meeting, Washington, D. C. ... 1975. Technology and Culture 20 (January 1979): 1-195.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION	Pursell, Carroll, editor. A Companion to American Technology. (Blackwell Companions to American History, 13). 463pp. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION	Sluby, Patricia Carter. Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity. 313pp. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004.
Technology and invention	Stapleton, Darwin H. The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America. 215pp. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 177). Philadelphia, Penn.: American Philosophical Society, 1987.
Technology and invention	Sullivan, Otha R. African-American Inventors. 164pp. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1998. (Children’s literature)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION	Thiesen, William Harold. “From Practical to Theoretical Shipbuilding: The Rationalization of an American Craft, 1820–1920.” DAI 61/12 (2001): 4922-A. (Doct. diss., University of Delaware, 2000)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Dimuro, Joseph. “The 1893 Ferris Wheel and the Cultural Politics of National Identity.” DAI 61/10 (2001): 3994-A. (Doct. diss., University of Chicago, 2000)
Technology and invention: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Garcia, Joseph Dimas. “Metrication in the United States: A Study on Feasibility and Process.” DAI 51/05 (1990): 1804-A. (Doct. diss., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990)
Technology and invention: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Gordon, Robert B. American Iron, 1607-1900. (Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology). 341 pp. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996.
Technology and invention: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Lieberman, Richard K. Steinway and Sons. 374pp. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1995. (New York piano makers)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Mohanty, Gail Fowler. Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780–1840. (Studies in American Popular History and Culture). 272pp. New York: Routledge, 2006.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Quarstein, John V. A History of Ironclads: The Power of Iron over Wood. 284pp. Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2006.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Slack, Charles. Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century. 274pp. New York: Hyperion, 2002. (On the development of usable rubber)
Technology and invention: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Weidenaar, Reynold. Magic Music from the Telharmonium. 417pp. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995. (Regarding the inventive work of Thaddeus Cahill, 1867-1934)
Technology and invention: Biographical	Cooper, Carolyn C. Shaping Invention: Thomas Blanchard’s Machinery and Patent Management in Nineteenth-Century America. 326pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Technology and invention: Biographical	Eber, Dorothy Harley. Genius at Work: Images of Alexander Graham Bell. 192pp. New York: Viking Press, A Studio Book, 1982.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Biographical	Essig, Mark. Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death. 358pp. New York: Walker, 2003.
Technology and invention: Biographical	Ferguson, Eugene S. Oliver Evans: Inventive Genius of the American Industrial Revolution. 72pp. Greenville, Del.: Hagley Museum, 1980.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Biographical	Fouché, Rayvon. Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology). 225pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Biographical	Gray, Charlotte. Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention. 46pp. New York: Arcade Publishing, Distributed by Hatchette Book Group USA, 2006.
Technology and invention: Biographical	Grosvenor, Edwin S. and Morgan Wesson. Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone. 304pp. New York: Harry Abrams, 1997.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Biographical	Hall, Elton W. Francis Blake: An Inventor’s Life, 1850–1913. 219pp. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003.
Technology and invention: Biographical	Hardenberg, Horst O. Samuel Morey and His Atmosphere Engine. 114pp. Warrendale, Penn.: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1992.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Biographical	Houze, Herbert G. Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention. Edited by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, with essays and entries by Carolyn C. Cooper and Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser. 260pp. New Haven: Yale University Press; Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2006.
Technology and invention: Biographical	Philip, Cynthia Owen. Robert Fulton: A Biography. 371pp. New York: Watts, 1985.
Technology and invention: Biographical	Poluhowich, J. Argonaut: The Submarine Legacy of Simon Lake. (West Texas A&M University series; no. 4). 181pp. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.
Technology and invention: Biographical	Pretzger, William S., editor. Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Experience. 141pp. Dearborn, Mich.: Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, 1989.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: Biographical	Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream. 242pp. New York: Free Press, 2001.
Technology and invention: Biographical	Sloane, David E. E., editor. Nineteenth-Century American Industry and Culture: Eli Whitney Issue. Essays in Arts and Sciences 10 (1982): 93-216.
Technology and invention: Biographical	Thulesius, Olav. Edison in Florida: The Green Laboratory. 150pp. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c1997.
Technology and invention: Institutional	Farley, James J. “The Frankford Arsenal, 1816-1870: Industrial and Technological Change.” DAI 52/09 (1992): 3401-A. (Doct. diss., Temple University, 1991)
Technology and invention: Institutional	Farley, James J. Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia’s Frankford Arsenal, 1816-1870. 142pp. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
Technology and invention: Institutional	McBride, William M. Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945. (Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology). 336pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Technology and invention: Institutional	Tomblin, Barbara B. “From Sail to Steam: The Development of Steam Technology in the United States Navy, 1838-1865.” DAI 50/04 (1989): 1070-A. (Doct. diss., Rutgers University, 1988)
Technology and invention: Pennsylvania	Rigal, Laura. The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic. 253pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1998.
[Bibliography main page] Technology and Invention (Politics and Public Policy)
SUBJECT	CITATION
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY)	Adas, Michael. Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission. 542pp. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Technology and invention (politics and public policy)	Jordan, John M. “Technology and Ideology: The Engineering Ideal and American Political Culture, 1892-1934.” DAI 50/06 (1989): 1709-A. (Doct. diss., University of Michigan, 1989)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY)	Lambert, Larry Lee. “Invoking the Machine: The Rhetorical Appeal to Machine Technology in American Whig Discourse.” DAI 63/01 (2002): 26-A. (Doct. diss., Indiana University, 2001)
[Bibliography main page] Technology and Invention (Social Aspects and Relations)
SUBJECT	CITATION
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Allen, Michael Thad and Gabrielle Hecht, editors. Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes. 339pp. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. (Includes papers on US topics)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Bartky, Ian R. Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America. 310pp. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Brewer, Priscilla J. From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America. 338pp. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Brockmann, R. John. From Millwrights to Shipwrights to the Twenty-First Century: Explorations in a History of Technical Communication in the United States. (Written language series). 464pp. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, c1998.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Budin, Howard R. “Engines of Democracy: Technology, Society, and American Common Schools before the Civil War.” DAI 57/07 (1997): 2911-A (Doct. diss., Columbia University Teachers College, 1996)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Colton, Joel and Stuart Bruchey, editors. Technology, the Economy, and Society: The American Experience. 287pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Connors, Anthony J. “ ‘Ingenious Machinists’: Invention and Mobility in the American Industrial Revolution.” DAI 66/02 (2005): 729-A. (Doct. diss., Clark University, 2005)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. A Social History of American Technology. 342 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. 257pp. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1983.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Cross, Gary S. and Rick Szostak. Technology and American Society: A History. 337pp. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1995.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Crowley, John E. The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America. 361pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Frommer, Myrna. “How Well Do Inventors Understand the Cultural Consequences of Their Inventions? A Study of: Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Telegraph, Thomas Alva Edison and the Phonograph, and Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone.” DAI 48/05 (1987): 1047-A. (Doct. diss., New York University, 1987)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Gregg, David W. “Technology, Culture Change, and the Introduction of Firearms to Northwest Alaska, 1791–1930.” DAI 61/09 (2001): 3630-A. (Doct. diss., Brown University, 2000)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Gutierrez, Gustavo A. “Occupation and Displacement in the Old Northwest: The Role of Three Technologies.” DAI 67/01 (2006): -A. (Doct. diss., Iowa State University, 2005)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Hazen, Margaret Hindle and Robert M. Hazen. Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture, 1775-1925. 281pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Hughes, Thomas P. Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture. 223pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Jeremy, David J., editor. International Technology Transfer: Europe, Japan, and the USA, 1700-1914. 253pp. Aldershot, Hants, England / Brookfield, Vt.: E. Elgar, 1991.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Knowles, Scott Gabriel. “Inventing Safety: Fire, Technology, and Trust in Modern America.” DAI 64/02 (2003): 624-A. (Doct. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 2003)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. [new edition]. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Mohun, Arwen P. Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology). 348pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Nye, David E. America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. 371pp. Cambridge, Mass. / London: MIT Press, 2003.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Nye, David E. American Technological Sublime. 362pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Nye, David E. Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture. (Representing American culture). 224pp. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Oldenziel, Ruth. “Gender and the Meanings of Technology: Engineering in the U.S., 1880-1945.” DAI 54/03 (1993): 981-A. (Doct. diss., Yale University, 1992)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Oldenziel, Ruth. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945. 271pp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	O’Malley, Michael. “The Idea of Time in American Culture, 1820-1920.” DAI 50/04 (1989): 1069-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Berkeley, 1988)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	O’Malley, Michael. Keeping Watch: A History of American Time. 384pp. New York: Viking, 1990.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Parenti, Christian. The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, from Slave Passes to the Patriot Act. 273pp. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Pursell, Carroll W. The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. 358pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Pursell, Carroll W. The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. 2nd edition. 398pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Pyne, Stephen J. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. 654pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Segal, Howard P. Technological Utopianism in American Culture. 309pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Smith, Mark M. Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. (Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies). 303pp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Smith, Merritt Roe, [editor]. Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience. 391pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Stevens, Edward. The Grammar of the Machine: Technical Literacy and Early Industrial Expansion in the United States. 210pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1995.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Tarr, Joel A. and Gabriel Dupuy, editors. Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America. (Technology and Urban Growth). 339pp. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Tobin, James. Great Projects: The Epic Story of the Building of America, from the Taming of the Mississippi to the Invention of the Internet. 322pp. New York: Free Press, 2001.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Usselman, Steven W. Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920. 398pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)	Van Stone, Jill Lorene. “Tariffs, Technology Choices, Natural Resources, and Growth in the Antebellum United States.” DAI 57/10 (1997): 4483-A. (Doct. diss., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS)	Wosk, Julie. Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age. 320pp. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. (Includes US aspects)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations): Artifacts, instruments, substances	Colbourn, Andrea M. “The Typewriter as an Agent of Change, 1867 to 1954: A Drucker/Ellulian Analysis.” DAI 49/08 (1989): 2009-A. (Doct. diss., New York University, 1988)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations): Artifacts, instruments, substances	Connolly, Marguerite A. “The Transformation of Home Sewing and the Sewing Machine in America, 1850-1929.” DAI 56/01 (1995): 329-A. (Doct. diss., University of Delaware, 1994)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS): Artifacts, instruments, substances	Kenney, William Howland. Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945. 258pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS): Artifacts, instruments, substances	Lakwete, Angela. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. 232pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS): Artifacts, instruments, substances	Magoun, Alexander Boyden. “Shaping the Sound of Music: The Evolution of the Phonograph Record, 1877-1950.” DAI 62/12 (2002): 4306-A. (Doct. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2000)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS): Artifacts, instruments, substances	Nickles, David Paull. “Funny Little Characters on a Stage: Foreign Ministries Confront the Telegraph.” DAI 61/09 (2001): 3713-A. (Doct. diss., Harvard University, 2000)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS): Artifacts, instruments, substances	Stephens, Carlene E. On Time: How America Has Learned to Live by the Clock. 255pp. Boston: Bulfinch Press; published in association with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 2002. (Illustrated)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS): Artifacts, instruments, substances	Thompson, Patrick Gaines. “Historical Importance of the Hall Breechloading Rifle in the Development of the American System of Manufacturing, Mass Production, Interchangeability, and Industrial Education.” DAI 63/08 (2003): 2986-A. (Doct. diss., Texas A&M University, 2002)
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS): Biographical	Solnit, Rebecca. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. 305pp. New York: Viking, 2003.
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION (SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATIONS): Connecticut	Gordon, Robert B. A Landscape Transformed: The Ironmaking District of Salisbury, Connecticut. 159pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations): Massachusetts	Hunter, John Bradford. “Boston and Its Maritime World, 1790-1850: Trade Circuits, Proto-Industrialization, and the Historical Geography of Shipbuilding in New England.” DAI 61/02 (2000): 721-A. (Doct. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1999)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations): Massachusetts	Lubar, Steven D. “Corporate and Urban Contexts of Textile Technology in 19th-century Lowell, Massachusetts: A Study of the Social Nature of Technological Knowledge.” DAI 44/11 (1984): 3467-A. (Doct. diss., University of Chicago, 1983)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations): Massachusetts	Mulligan, William H., Jr. “The Family and Technological Change: The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880.” DAI 43/07 (1983): 2426-A. (Doct. diss., Clark University, 1982)