Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern.Donald MacKenzie...
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Author: Donald MacKenzie
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Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance by MacKenzie, Donald

Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

€161,20

Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

€161,20
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern.

Donald MacKenzie follows one line of technology--strategic ballistic missile guidance through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He uncovers the parameters, the pressures, and the politics that make up the complex social construction of an equally complex technology.



Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 01/29/1993
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 8.91h x 5.99w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780262631471
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Inventing Accuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and Mechanizing Proof (2001), all published by the MIT Press. Portions of An Engine, not a Camera won the Viviana A. Zelizer Prize in economic sociology from the American Sociological Association.

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