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The Development of large technical systems
Renate Mayntz and Thomas Parke Hughes
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Frontmatter
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Foreword (page 5)
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1. Large technical systems: Concepts and issues (Bernward Joerges, page 9)
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2. The emergence of an early large-scale technical system: The American railroad network (Stephen Salsbury, page 37)
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3. The evolution of the technical system of railways in France from 1832 to 1937 (Francois Caron, page 69)
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4. The development of the German railroad system (G. Wolfgang Heinze and Heinrich H. Kill, page 105)
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5. Looking for the boundaries of technological determinism: A brief history of the U.S. telephone system (Louis Galambos, page 135)
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6. The telephone in France 1879 to 1979: National characteristics and international influences (Catherine Bertho-Lavenir, page 155)
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7. The politics of growth: The German telephone system (Frank Thomas, page 179)
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8. The United States air traffic system: Increasing reliability in the midst of rapid growth (Todd La Porte, page 215)
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9. The French electrical power system: An inter-country comparison (Maurice Levy-Leboyer, page 245)
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10. The dynamics of system development in a comparative perspective: Interactive videotex in Germany, France and Britain (Renate Mayntz and Volker Schneider, page 263)
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Contributors (page 299)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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ISIS | 81.3 (Sep. 1990): 557-558 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28199009%2981%3A3%3C557%3ATDOLTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G |
JEH | 50.1 (Mar. 1990): 252-254 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28199003%2950%3A1%3C252%3ATDOLTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U |
CS | 19.2 (Mar. 1990): 210 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199003%2919%3A2%3C210%3ATDOLTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H |
Citable Link
Published: 1988
Publisher: Campus Verlag
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