STS.464
Computing from the Global South
Examines the rise and development of computing technologies in the global south. Surveys the effects of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century on the imagination of computational technologies in places such as South America, Africa, and Asia. Covers the failures and defeats of postcolonial projects when faced with the challenge of asymmetric access to global markets and capital. Identifies contemporary forms of resistance and imaginations of innovation that still endure and flourish in the global south, challenging perspectives from the global north.
Spring 2008 · Technology and the Literary Imagination
Our linked subjects are (1) the historical process by which the meaning of _technology_ has been constructed, and (2) the concurrent transformation of the environment. To explain the emergence of _technology_ as a pivotal word (and concept) in contemporary public discourse, we will examine responses — chiefly political and literary — to the development of the mechanic arts, and to the linked social, cultural, and ecological transformation of 19th- and 20th-century American society, culture, and landscape. **Note:** In the interests of freshness and topicality we regard the STS.464 syllabus as sufficiently flexible to permit some — mostly minor — variations from year to year. One example of a different STS.464 syllabus can be found in STS.464 _Cultural History of Technology_, Spring 2005.
Readings
- DeLillo, Don. White Noise . New York, NY: Penguin, 1999. ISBN: 9780140283303.
- Hersey, John. Hiroshima . New York, NY: Vintage, 1989. ISBN: 9780679721031.
- Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia . New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 1998. ISBN: 9780140436679.
- Jewett, Sarah Orne. Country of the Pointed Firs . New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9781593082628.
- Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick . 2nd Norton Critical Edition. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2001. ISBN: 9780393972832.
- McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature . New York, NY: Random House, 2006. ISBN: 9780812976083.
- [S&C] = Smith, Merritt Roe, and Gregory Clancey, eds. Major Problems in the History of American Technology . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. ISBN: 9780669354720.
- What is technology ?
- The history of technology - the concept, the word
- In-class reading: excerpt from Don DeLillo, White Noise , pp. 124-129
- Scharff, Robert, and Val Dusek, eds. “The Historical Background,” and “Defining Technology.” Part I and III in Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition - An Anthology . Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003, pp. ix-xi, 1-60, and 206-244. ISBN: 9780631222194.
- Plato. “On Dialectic and ‘Techne’” (from the Republic ).
- Artistotle. “On ‘Techne’ and ‘Episteme’” (from Nichomachean Ethics ).
- Schatzberg, Eric. “ Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology before 1930.” Technology and Culture 47, no. 3 (2006): 486-512.
- 2 · Technology in America today
- DeLillo, Don. White Noise .
- Marx, Leo. “Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept.” Social Research 64, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 965-88.
- Heilbroner, Robert. “Do Machines Make History?” Technology and Culture 8, no. 3 (July 1967): 335-345.
- Kateb, George. “Technology and Philosophy.” Social Research 64, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 1225-1246.
- Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia.
- Whitehead, A. N. Science and the Modern World . New York, NY: Free Press, 1997, pp. 1-18 and 57-94, chapters 1 and 3-5. ISBN: 9780684836393.
- Walker, Timothy. “Defence of Mechanical Philosophy.” North American Review 33, no. 1 (1831).
- Peckham, Morse. “Toward a Theory of Romanticism.” PMLA 66, no. 2 (March 1951): 5-23.
- Williams, Raymond. “Carlyle,” “The Industrial Novels,” and “Marxism and Culture.” In Culture and Society: 1780-1950 . New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780231057011.
- In The Marx-Engels Reader . Edited by R. C. Tucker. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1978. ISBN: 9780393090406.
- Trachtenberg, Alan. “Mechanization Takes Command.” Chapter 2 in The Incorporation of America (selections). New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2007, pp. 38-69. ISBN: 9780809058280.
- Williams, Raymond. “Introduction,” and “J. H. Newman and Matthew Arnold.” In Culture and Society: 1780-1950 . New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780231057011.
- Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick , chapters 1-40.
- Putnam, John B. “Whaling and Whalecraft: A Pictorial Account.” In Moby-Dick , 2nd Norton Critical Edition, pp. 447-454; followed by contemporary engravings, pp. 455-464.
- Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick , chapters 41-96.
- ———. “Hawthorne and His Mosses.” In Moby-Dick , 2nd Norton Critical Edition, pp. 517-532.
- Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick , chapter 97 – Epilogue.
- Melville’s letters at the time of Moby-Dick. In Moby-Dick , 2nd Norton Critical Edition, pp. 532-548.
- Jewett, S. O. The Country of the Pointed Firs .
- Marx, Leo. “The Idea of Nature in America.” Daedalus 137, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 8-21.
- McKibben, Bill. “The Challenge to Environmentalism.” Daedalus 137, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 5-7.
- Ritvo, Harriet. “Beasts in the Jungle (or wherever).” Daedalus 137, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 22-30.
- Kevles, Daniel J. “The Contested Earth: Science, Equity and the Environment.” Daedalus 137, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 80-95.
- Hersey, John. Hiroshima .
- Marx, Leo. “The Idea of Nature in America.” Daedelus 137, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 8-21.
- Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring . 25th anniversary ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987, pp. 1-100. ISBN: 9780395453902.
- White, Lynn. “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis.” Science 155, no. 3767 (March 10, 1967): 1203-1207.
- McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature.
- Cronon, William, ed. “The Trouble with Wilderness.” In Uncommon Ground : Toward Reinventing Nature . New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995, pp. 69-90. ISBN: 9780393038729.
- McKibben, Bill. “Walking Through an Idea.” Appalachia (Winter/Spring 2008): 32-36. [An excerpt from Wandering Home : A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont’s Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondacks . Crown, 2005.]
Spring 2005 · Cultural History of Technology
Topics
- What is “Technology” in the Contemporary World?
- The Context of Classical and Early Modern Philosophy
- The Enlightenment and the Belief in Progress
- The Romantic Reaction
- The Novel
- The Marxist Critique of Capitalism
- Culture: High v. Low; Traditional v. Democratic
- Systems and Networks
- Modernism: Socio-Economic and Aesthetic
- Engineering: Mentality, Vocation, Institution
- Ecological Crisis
- What Made “Technology” Necessary?
Readings
- Smith, Merritt Roe, and Gregory Clancey, eds. Major Problems in the History of American Technology . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. ISBN: 9780669354720. [S&C]
- Scharff, Robert C., and Val Dusek. The Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition (An Anthology) . Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 9780631222194. [S&D]
- Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams . Riverside ed. Annotated, edited by E. Samuels. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. ISBN: 9780395166208. [EHA]
- Whitehead, A. N. Science and the Modern World . Riverside, NJ: Simon & Schuster, 1997, chapters 1, 3, and 5. ISBN: 9780684836393. (Reprint)
- In-class reading: Excerpt from DeLillo, Don. White Noise . New York, NY: Penguin, 1999, pp. 127-28. ISBN: 9780140283303.
- Heim, M. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality .
- Jonas, H. Toward a Philosophy of Technology .
- [**] [EHA] Adams, Henry. Chapters 1, 2, and 3.
- Adas, M. Machines as the Measure of Men .
- Horkheimer, and Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment .
- Jefferson, T. Notes on the State of Virginia .
- Kasson, J. “The Emergence of Republican Technology.” In Civilizing the Machine .
- Marx, L. Machine in the Garden . pp. 145-180.
- Marx, L., and B. Mazlish, eds. Progress: Fact or Illusion?
- Merchant, C. The Death of Nature .
- Polanyi, K. The Great Transformation .
- [*] Whitehead, A. N. Science and the Modern World . Riverside, NJ: Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp.1-164. ISBN: 9780684836393. (Reprint)
- Abrams, M. The Mirror and the Lamp .
- Emerson, R. W. “Works and Days.” In Society and Solitude .
- Melville, H. “The Try-Works.” Chapter 96 in Moby-Dick .
- Marx. Machine in the Garden.
- Nye, D. American Technological Sublime .
- Thoreau, H. D. “Sounds.” Chapter IV in Walden .
- Wordsworth, W. “Tintern Abbey,” and Preface to Lyrical Ballads .
- [**] Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. Norton critical ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. ISBN: 9780393975604. (Documents on Dickens and Industrialization)
- Norris, F. The Octopus .
- Sinclair, U. The Jungle .
- Verne, J. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea .
- Watt, I. The Rise of the Novel .
- Passos, J. Dos. Manhattan Transfer USA .
- Dreiser, T. Sister Carrie .
- Williams, R. The City and the Country .
- [**] Marx, K. “Communist Manifesto, and 1844 mss,” Preface to “A Critique of Political Economy.” In Marx-Engel Reader .
- Berman, M. All that is Solid Melts into Air .
- Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity .
- Hobsbawm, E. The Age of Revolution .
- Marcuse, H. Eros and Civilization .
- Williams, R. Marxism and Literature . pp. 75-144.
- [**] Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy . Whitefish, MT: Kessigner Publishing Company, 2004. ISBN: 1419214683. (Reprint) (selections)
- [**] Whitman, Walt. “Passage to India,” and “To A Locomotive in Winter.” In Leaves of Grass . New York, NY: Penguin, 2005. ISBN: 9780143039273. (Reprint)
- [**] ———. “Democratic Vistas.” In Democratic Vistas and Other Papers . Miami, FL: Fredonia Books, 2002. ISBN: 9781410100665. (Reprint)
- [*] Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society, 1789-1950 . New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780231057011.
- Carlyle, T. “Signs of the Times,” and Sartor Resartus .
- Eagleton, T. “The Rise of Literature.” In Literary Criticism .
- Freud, S. Civilization and its Discontents .
- Hughes, T. Human-Built World .
- Trachtenberg, A. The Incorporation of America .
- Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism .
- Williams, Rosalind. Notes on the Underground .
- [**] ———. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780801846144.
- [**] Castells, M. The Rise of the Network Society . 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, pp. 1-76. ISBN: 9780631221401.
- [*] Chandler, A. Chapters 1-5 in The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780674940529.
- [*] Trachtenberg, A. The Incorporation of America . New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1982, pp. 38-69. ISBN: 9780809001453
- Akin, W. Technocracy and the American Dream, The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941 .
- Hughes, T. American Genesis .
- Nye, D. Electrifying America .
- [**] Adams, Henry. Chapters 19-35 in The Education of Henry Adams . Riverside ed. Annotated, edited by E. Samuels. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. ISBN: 9780395166208.
- [*] Marinetti, et. al. Four Futurist Manifestoes .
- [*] Shapiro, M. “The Armory Show,” and “Nature of Abstract Art.” In Modern Art, 19th and 20th Centuries Selected Papers . New York, NY: George Braziller, 1978. ISBN: 9780807608999.
- Clark, T. J. The Painting of Modern Life .
- Giddens, A. The Consequences of Modernity .
- Giedion, S. Mechanization Takes Command .
- Greenberg, C. “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” and “The Plight of Culture.” In Art and Culture .
- Harvey, D. The Condition of Postmodernity .
- Hughes, R. The Shock of the New .
- Kern, S. The Culture of Space and Time .
- [*] Noble, David. America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, Foreward, Introduction, and chapters 1-4, pp. xi-xxvi, and 3-65. ISBN: 9780394499833.
- [**] Veblen, Thorstein. The Engineers and the Price System . Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing Company, 2004. ISBN: 1419260960. (Reprint)
- [**] ———. “The Machine Process.” In The Theory of Business Enterprise . Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1978. ISBN: 9780878556991. (Reprint)
- Aitken, H. Scientific Management in Action: Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal .
- Layton, E. E. The Revolt of the Engineers .
- Oldenziel, R. “Unsettled Discourses.” In Making Technology Masculine . pp. 19-50.
- Smith, M. R. Harper’s Ferry Armory and the New Technology .
- [**] Hersey, John. Hiroshima . New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1984. ISBN: 9780553247923.
- Carson, R. Silent Spring .
- Freud, S. Civilization and Its Discontents .
- Harrison, R. P. Forests, the Shadow of Civilization .
- Marsh, J. P. Man and Nature .
- McKibben, W. The End of Nature .
- Mumford, L. Chapters 1-2, and 14-18 in The City in History .
- Cronon, W. Nature’s Metropolis .
- Davis, M. City of Quartz .
- LEC #: 12 · TOPICS: What Made “Technology” Necessary? · READINGS: [**] DeLillo, Don. White Noise . New York, NY: Penguin, 1999. ISBN: 9780140283303.
- Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams . Riverside ed. Annotated, edited by E. Samuels. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. ISBN: 9780395166208.
- Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy . Whitefish, MT: Kessigner Publishing Company, 2004. ISBN: 1419214683. (Reprint)
- DeLillo, Don. White Noise . New York, NY: Penguin, 1999. ISBN: 9780140283303.
- Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, Norton Critical Edition . New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. ISBN: 9780393975604.
- Hersey, John. Hiroshima . New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1984. ISBN: 9780553247923.
- Hughes, Thomas P. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, p. 197. ISBN: 9780801846144.
- Kateb, George. “Technology and Philosophy.” Social Research 64, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 1225-1246.
- Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Idea in America . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780195133516.
- Menand, Louis. “Gross Points: Is the blockbuster the end of cinema?” The New Yorker (February 7, 2005): 82-87.
- Noble, David. America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, Foreward, Introduction, and chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780394499833.
- Peckham, Morse. “Toward a Theory of Romanticism.” Proceedings of the Modern Language Association 66, no. 2 (March, 1951): 5-23.
- Rosen, Jonathan. “The Woodpecker In All of Us.” The New York Times (May 3, 2005): A25, col. 1.
- Scharff, Robert C., and Val Dusek. The Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition (An Anthology) . Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 9780631222194.
- Smith, Merritt Roe, and Gregory Clancey, eds. Major Problems in the History of American Technology . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. ISBN: 9780669354720.
- Thoreau, Henry David. “Sounds.” In Walden . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780691096124. (Reprint)
- Veblen, Thorstein. The Engineers and the Price System . Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing Company, 2004. ISBN: 1419260960. (Reprint)
- ———. The Theory of Business Enterprise . Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1978, chapters 1 and 2. ISBN: 9780878556991. (Reprint)
- White, Lynn Jr. “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis.” Science 155, no. 3767 (March 10, 1967): 1203-1207.
- Whitehead, A. N. Science and the Modern World . Riverside, NJ: Simon & Schuster, 1997, chapters 1, 3, and 5. ISBN: 9780684836393. (Reprint)
- Whitman, Walt. “Democratic Vistas.” In Democratic Vistas and Other Papers . Miami, FL: Fredonia Books, 2002. ISBN: 9781410100665. (Reprint)
- ———. “Passage to India,” and “To A Locomotive in Winter.” In Leaves of Grass . New York, NY: Penguin, 2005. ISBN: 9780143039273. (Reprint)
- Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society, 1789-1950 . New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780231057011.
- Williams, Rosalind. “Afterword: an historian’s view on the network society.” In The Network Society: A Cross-cultural Perspective . Edited by Castells, Manuel. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2005, pp. 432-448. ISBN: 9781845424350.
- Abrams, M. The Mirror and the Lamp . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780195014716.
- Adas, M. Machines as the Measure of Men . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780801497605.
- Aitken, H. Scientific Management in Action . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780691042411.
- Akin, W. Technocracy and the American Dream . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780520031104.
- Benjamin, W. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Illuminations . New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1969. ISBN: 9780805202410.
- Berman, M. All That is Solid Melts into Air . New York, NY: Penguin Group, 1988. ISBN: 9780140109627.
- Carlyle, T. “Signs of the Times.” A Carlyle Reader . Acton, MA: Copley Publishing Group, 2000. ISBN: 9781583900086.
- Carlyle, T. Sartor Resartus . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780192836731.
- Carson, R. Silent Spring . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. ISBN: 9780618249060.
- Clark, T. J. The Painting of Modern Life . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780691009032.
- Cronon, W. Nature’s Metropolis . New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. ISBN: 9780393308730.
- Davis, M. City of Quartz . New York, NY: Random House, 1992. ISBN: 9780679738060.
- Dos Passos, J. Manhattan Transfer . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. ISBN: 9780618381869.
- Dreiser, T. Sister Carrie . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2004. ISBN: 9780486434681.
- Eagleton, T. “The Rise of Literature.” In Marxism and Literary Criticism . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976. ISBN: 9780520032439.
- Emerson, R. W. “Works and Days.” In Society and Solitude . Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Fredonia Books, 2001. ISBN: 9781589634626.
- Freud, S. Civilization and Its Discontents . New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. ISBN: 9780393301588.
- Giddens, A. The Consequences of Modernity . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780804718912.
- Giedion, S. Mechanization Takes Command . New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1969. ISBN: 9780393004892.
- Greenberg, C. “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” and “The Plight of Culture.” In Art and Culture . Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780807066812.
- Harrison, R. P. Forests: the Shadow of Civilization . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780226318073.
- Harvey, D. The Condition of Postmodernity . Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. ISBN: 9780631162940.
- Heim, M. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780195092585.
- Hobsbawm, E. The Age of Revolution . New York, NY: Random House, 1996. ISBN: 9780679772538.
- Horkheimer, and Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780804736336.
- Hughes, R. The Shock of the New . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1990. ISBN: 9780070311275.
- Hughes, T. American Genesis . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780226359274.
- Hughes, T. Human-Built World . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780226359342.
- Jefferson, T. Notes on the State of Virginia . New York, NY: Penguin Group, 1998. ISBN: 9780140436679.
- Jonas, H. “Toward a Philosophy of Technology.” In Philosophy of Technology . Edited by R. Scharff and V. Dusek. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp.191-204. ISBN: 9780631222194.
- Kasson, J. “The Emergence of Republican Technology.” In Civilizing the Machine . New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1999. ISBN: 9780809016204.
- Kern, S, ed. The Culture of Space and Time . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780674021693.
- Layton, E. E. The Revolt of the Engineers . Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780801832871.
- Marcuse, H. Eros and Civilization . Malden, MA: Beacon Press, 1974. ISBN: 9780807015551.
- Marsh, G. P. Man and Nature . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965. ISBN: 9780674544529.
- Marx, L. Machine in the Garden . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 145-180. ISBN: 9780195133516.
- Marx, L., and B. Mazlish, eds. Progress: Fact or Illusion? Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780472106769.
- McKibben, B. The End of Nature . New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group, 1997. ISBN: 9780385416047.
- Melville, H. “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.” In The Encantadas and Other Stories . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2005. ISBN: 9780486440842.
- Melville, H. “The Try-Works.” Chapter 96 in Moby-Dick . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2003. ISBN: 9780486432151.
- Merchant, C. The Death of Nature . New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990. ISBN: 9780062505958.
- Mumford, L. Chapters 1-2, and 14-18 in The City in History . San Diego, CA: Harvest Books, 1968. ISBN: 9780156180351.
- Norris, F. The Octopus . New York, NY: Penguin Group, 1994. ISBN: 9780140187700.
- Oldenziel, R. “Unsettled Discourses.” In Making Technology Masculine . Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2004, pp. 19-50. ISBN: 9789053563816.
- Polanyi, K. The Great Transformation . Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780807056431.
- Sinclair, U. The Jungle . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2001. ISBN: 9780486419237.
- Smith, M. R. Harper’s Ferry Armory and the New Technology . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780801491818.
- Thoreau, H. D. “Sounds.” Chapter IV in Walden . Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780807014257.
- Trachtenberg, A. The Incorporation of America . New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1982. ISBN: 9780809001453.
- Verne, J. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Riverside, NJ: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN: 9781416500209.
- Watt, I. The Rise of the Novel . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520230699.
- Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2003. ISBN: 9780486427034.
- Williams, R. Marxism and Literature . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1978, pp. 75-144. ISBN: 9780198760610.
- Williams, R. The Country and the City . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780195198102.
- Wordsworth, W. “Tintern Abbey” and Preface to Lyrical Ballads . New York, NY: Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 9780415063883.
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