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A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience
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'A Hammer in Their Hands' collects newspaper & magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography & fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, & other ...
'A Hammer in Their Hands' collects newspaper & magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography & fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, & other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African Americans.
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- Creator
- edited by Carroll Pursell
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1423796578, 0262661993, 9786612096945, 0262281953, 9780262661997, 128209694X, 0262162253, 9780262162258, 9780262281959
- OCLC
- ocm56191833, ocn182530570
- "Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-386) and index.
- 1. African medicine in the new world -- 2. New world skills -- 3. The persistence of craft -- 4. The new industrial age -- 5. Finding a place in the industrial age -- 6. Training for the industrial age -- 7. Inventors -- 8. The rural south -- 9. Industrial employment -- 10. The automobile -- 11. Learning to fly -- 12. War work -- 13. After the war -- 14. Setting a political agenda -- 15. Ties to Africa -- 16. Engineering careers -- 17. Accessing the information age -- 18. Technological troubles -- Further readings -- Index