Description: Part I: From the Old World to the New, 1607 to the 1830s. 1. Manufacturing America, 1607-1800. 2. The Young Republic and Individual Opportunity, 1800 to the 1830s. Part II: Uniformity, Diversity and Systematizing America, Late 1830s to 1920. 3. An American People and a Common Material Experience, Late 1830s to 1870s. 4. Systematizing Power, Communications and the Power to Communicate, 1870s-1920. 5. Systematizing the Fabric of American Life, 1870s-1920l. 6. Systematizing Workers and Their Workplaces, 1870s-1920. Part III: Society to Self, 1920 to 2000. 7. Technology as Social Solution, 1920 to 1950, Part I. 8. Technology as Social Solution, 1920 to 1950, Part II. 9. Expressing the Self: Individualism in an Era of Plenty, 1950 to the Late 1960s. 10. Public and Private: Technology as Social Question: The Later 1960s-2000. 11. Private and Public: Technology and Individual Autonomy: The Later 1960s-2000.

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