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Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Explores the connection between social movements, technology, and inequality. It also shows how just as new technologies helped fuel the growth of new movements throughout U.S. history, even newer technologies have emerged in the last decade that are beginning to help groups counter different forms of inequality"--
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"The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked the arrival of modernity. The lightbulb became a catalyst for the nation's...
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