Steel
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-0-85785-479-7 (ISBN)
The research for the book is informed by diverse sources including industry journals, contemporary accounts and technical literature – all framed by rich, early accounts of iron and steel making from the middle ages to the opening of the industrial age, and most notably, the crucial works of Vannoccio Biringuccio, Georgius Agricola, Andrew Ure and Harry Scrivenor.
In contrast, trans-cultural accounts of the history of metallurgy from eminent sinologists and cultural historians like Joseph Needham and G.E.R. Lloyd are used. Readings on the pre-history and history of science, as well as histories and philosophies technology from scholars such as Siegfried Giedion, Merritt Roe Smith, L.T.C Rolt, Robert B. Gordon inform the analysis. Social and economic history from historians such as Eric Hobsbawn, William T. Hogan and David Brody are consulted; labour process theory is also examined, particularly the influential writings of F.W. Taylor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and his contemporary critics, like David Nobel and Harry Braverman. Many other disciples also inform the account: histories of urban design and architecture, transport and military history, environmental history and geography.
Tony Fry is Principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia. He is an award-winning designer, cultural theorist, educator and author. He has held academic positions in Australia and internationally and is the author of sixteen books, including Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2009); Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2011), Becoming Human By Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Remaking Cities (Bloomsbury, 2017), Defuturing (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Writing Design Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2021). Anne-Marie Willis is Lecturer in Design Ethics and Design History at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Previously, she was Professor and Head of Design Theory at the German University in Cairo, Egypt, and Editor of Design Philosophy Papers. She is a design writer, editor and educator, and her published books include The Design Philosophy Reader (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Steel (Bloomsbury, 2015). She has contributed papers to leading international journals, articles to The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design and is also a member of the editorial advisory board for the Bloomsbury Design Library.
Introduction
Part 1— The Ages of Iron
Chapter 1. Traffic in Ideas
Chapter 2. Ecologies of Carbon
Chapter 3. Magic, Alchemy and Science
Part 2 — The Ages of Industry
Chapter 4. The Proto-Modern
Chapter 5. Fully Mechanised Modernity
Chapter 6. Technology After the Modern
Part 3 — Towards the Ages of Sustainment
Chapter 7. Environments of Iron and Steel-making
Chapter 8. Regulating Industrial Environments
Chapter 9. Futuring: Sustainment by Design
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.1.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Design, Histories, Futures |
| Zusatzinfo | 31 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 463 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-85785-479-8 / 0857854798 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85785-479-7 / 9780857854797 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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