The technological imperative in Canada : an intellectual history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Francis, R. D. (R. Douglas), 1944-
Imprint:	Vancouver : UBC Press, c2009.
Description:	x, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Canada -- History. Technology -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History. Technology -- Philosophy -- History. Technology and civilization. Technology and civilization. Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Technology -- Philosophy. Technology -- Social aspects. Canada. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7799054

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ISBN:	9780774816502 (bound) 0774816503 (bound)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Perspectives on technology
2. T.C. Keefer, T.C. Haliburton, Sandford Fleming, and Alexander Graham Bell: technology as railways, communication media, and time
3. Advocates of technical education: technology as knowledge
4. George Sidney Brett and the debate on technology as war: technology dethroned
5. William Lyon Mackenzie King and Frederick Philip Grove: technology as industrialism
6. Stephen Leacock and Archibald Lampman: technology as mechanization
7. Harold A. Innis and Eric Havelock: technology as power
8. Marshall McLuhan: making sense(s) of technology
9. Northrop Frye and E.J. Pratt: technology as mythology
10. George Grant and Dennis Lee: technology as being.

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