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Hacker</span></a>, <a href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Margaret+Vining%22" class="secondary"><span dir=ltr>Margaret Vining</span></a></div><div><span dir=ltr>Bloomsbury Academic</span>, <span dir=ltr>30 Mar 2006</span> - <a class="secondary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22History%22&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0"><span dir=ltr>History</span></a> - <span dir=ltr>205 pages</span></div></div><div id=synopsis><div id=synopsis-window><div id=synopsistext dir=ltr class="sa"><p>War is part of American history. This book examines how military technology both molded and reflected interactions between American military institutions and other American institutions. The growth of engineering and science has reshaped military technology, organization, and practice from the Colonial era to the present day. At the same time, military concerns influenced, and and sometimes channeled, American engineering and scientific development.<br><br><i>American Military Technology</i> chronicles the interactions of technology and science with America's armed forces from colonial times to the end of the 20th century. Each period of the nation's history brought new and influential changes to the interaction of the military and technology.<br><br>The book is an excellent springboard for understanding the complex relationship of science, technology, and war in American history.</p></div></div></div><div class="search_box_wrapper"></div></td> </tr></table><div id="summary-second-column"></div></div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class=about_title><a name="about_author_anchor"></a>About the author <span style="color:#666; font-weight:normal">(2006)</span></h3><div id=about_author class=about_content><div id=about_author_v><div class=textmodulecontent>BARTON C. HACKER is curator of Military History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. He is a recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology and several writing prizes. He has curated major exhibits on submarines in the Cold War and West Point in the making of America. His publications include books on the history of Project Gemini, radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, and world military institutions, as well as many articles and book reviews on a wide range of topics in the history of military technology. </div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class="about_title">Bibliographic information</h3><div class="about_content" id="metadata_content" style="padding-bottom:.3em"><div class="metadata_sectionwrap"><table id="metadata_content_table"><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label">Title</td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>American Military Technology: The Life Story of a Technology</span><br><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=bibliogroup:%22Greenwood+Technographies%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><i><span dir=ltr>Greenwood Technographies</span></i></a>, <span dir=ltr>ISSN</span> <span dir=ltr>1549-7321</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Authors</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Barton+C.+Hacker%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Barton C. Hacker</span></a>, <a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Margaret+Vining%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Margaret Vining</span></a></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Edition</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>illustrated, reprint</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Publisher</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>Bloomsbury Academic, 2006</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>ISBN</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>0313333084, 9780313333088</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Length</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>205 pages</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Subjects</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><div style="display:inline" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22History%22" itemprop="url" dir=ltr><span itemprop="title">History</span></a></div> › <div style="display:inline" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22History+Military%22" itemprop="url" dir=ltr><span itemprop="title">Military</span></a></div> › <div style="display:inline" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22History+Military+United+States%22" itemprop="url" dir=ltr><span itemprop="title">United States</span></a></div><br><br><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22History+/+Military+/+United+States%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>History / Military / United States</span></a><br/><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Science+/+General%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Science / General</span></a><br/><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Technology+%26+Engineering+/+General%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Technology & Engineering / General</span></a><br/><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Technology+%26+Engineering+/+History%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Technology & Engineering / History</span></a><br/><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Technology+%26+Engineering+/+Military+Science%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Technology & Engineering / Military Science</span></a></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td>&nbsp</td><td>&nbsp</td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Export Citation</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><a class="gb-button " href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/download/American_Military_Technology.bibtex?id=ufpinQqFJ_gC&output=bibtex"><span dir=ltr>BiBTeX</span></a> <a class="gb-button " href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/download/American_Military_Technology.enw?id=ufpinQqFJ_gC&output=enw"><span dir=ltr>EndNote</span></a> <a class="gb-button " href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/download/American_Military_Technology.ris?id=ufpinQqFJ_gC&output=ris"><span dir=ltr>RefMan</span></a></td></tr></table></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div><script>_OC_addFlags({Host:"https://books.google.com.sg/", IsBooksUnifiedLeftNavEnabled:1, IsBrowsingHistoryEnabled:1, IsBooksRentalEnabled:1, IsZipitFolderCollectionEnabled:1});_OC_Run({"is_cobrand":false,"sign_in_url":"https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?service=print\u0026continue=https://books.google.com.sg/books%3Fid%3DufpinQqFJ_gC%26pg%3DPA131%26redir_esc%3Dy%26hl%3Den\u0026hl=en"}, {"volume_id":"ufpinQqFJ_gC","is_ebook":false,"volumeresult":{"has_flowing_text":true,"has_scanned_text":false,"can_download_pdf":false,"can_download_epub":false,"is_pdf_drm_enabled":false,"is_epub_drm_enabled":false},"sample_url":"https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ufpinQqFJ_gC\u0026source=gbs_atb_hover","is_browsable":false,"is_public_domain":false}, {});</script><div id="footer_table" style="font-size:83%;text-align:center;position:relative;top:20px;height:4.5em;margin-top:2em"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><a href="/intl/en/googlebooks/about.html"><nobr><nobr>About Google Books</nobr></nobr></a> - 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