| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Thomas P. Hughes. Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture.(science.culture.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 223. $22.50.

Were I to teach a survey course on the history of modern technology, I would strongly consider using this book. Thomas P. Hughes takes the reader over a vast stretch of time and through complex ideas and scores of individuals to present an intellectual history of technology. The book resulted from the substantial revision of lectures Hughes has delivered since the mid-1990s. The author writes that his goal is to understand the complex and contradictory essence of technology. He defines technology as the creative means to a variety of ends in making the human-built world. He focuses primarily on the history of technology in Western Europe, especially Germany, and the United States, with passing reference to France and the USSR.

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