Engineers of Happy Land : : Technology and Nationalism in a Colony / / Rudolf Mrázek.
Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that people use and think abou...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ;
3 |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- ONE. Language as Asphalt
- TWO. Towers
- THREE. From Darkness to Light
- FOUR. Indonesian Dandy
- FIVE. Let Us Become Radio Mechanics
- EPILOGUE. Only the Deaf Can Hear Well
- NOTES
- SOURCES
- INDEX