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    Review Essay: Fixing Technology: GREGORY J. DOWNEY, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. xiv, 242, illustrations, tables, notes, index, 23.95 paper. JOHN A. JAKLE, City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. x, 292, notes, index, illustrations, 45.00 cloth. WILLIAM J. MITCHELL, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, pp. 259, notes, index, 27.95 cloth. GIJS MOM, The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 423, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 54.95 cloth. RONALD C. TOBEY, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, pp. xviii, 316, illustrations, tables, graphs, notes, index, 35.00 cloth

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    Review Essay: Fixing Technology: GREGORY J. DOWNEY, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. xiv, 242, illustrations, tables, notes, index, 23.95 paper. JOHN A. JAKLE, City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. x, 292, notes, index, illustrations, 45.00 cloth. WILLIAM J. MITCHELL, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, pp. 259, notes, index, 27.95 cloth. GIJS MOM, The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 423, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 54.95 cloth. RONALD C. TOBEY, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, pp. xviii, 316, illustrations, tables, graphs, notes, index, 35.00 cloth

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    Review Essay: Fixing Technology: GREGORY J. DOWNEY, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. xiv, 242, illustrations, tables, notes, index, 23.95 paper. JOHN A. JAKLE, City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. x, 292, notes, index, illustrations, 45.00 cloth. WILLIAM J. MITCHELL, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, pp. 259, notes, index, 27.95 cloth. GIJS MOM, The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 423, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 54.95 cloth. RONALD C. TOBEY, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, pp. xviii, 316, illustrations, tables, graphs, notes, index, 35.00 cloth

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    Review Essay: Fixing Technology: GREGORY J. DOWNEY, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. xiv, 242, illustrations, tables, notes, index, 23.95 paper. JOHN A. JAKLE, City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. x, 292, notes, index, illustrations, 45.00 cloth. WILLIAM J. MITCHELL, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, pp. 259, notes, index, 27.95 cloth. GIJS MOM, The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 423, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 54.95 cloth. RONALD C. TOBEY, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, pp. xviii, 316, illustrations, tables, graphs, notes, index, 35.00 cloth

    Contributors:

    Platt, Harold L. (author)

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    Journal of urban history ; 34

    Publication date:

    2007

    ISSN:

    0096-1442

    Type of media:

    Article (Journal)

    Type of material:

    Print

    Language:

    English

    Keywords:

    Geschichte , Zeitschrift , Stadt

    Classification:

    BKL:  21.73 / 71.14 / 74.12 / 21.73 Stadtbaugeschichte, Geschichte ländlicher Siedlungen / 71.14 Städtische Gesellschaft / 74.12 Stadtgeographie, Siedlungsgeographie
    Local classification TIB:  770/6720

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