Isbn: 9780521371988 - new profession, old order: engineers and german society, 1815-1914 (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:9780521371988.…

Original Black Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1989. x, 357pp. B&W illustrations. "New Profession, Old Order is an exploration of the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany. It concentrates on the social and educational history of engineers as a microcosm of ther larger society between 1815 and 1914." Sections include: Emulation: Bildung and the bureaucratic order; Reorientation: industrial capitalism and a 'practical' profession; and The crucible: technical careers and managerial power, 1900-1914. Dust jacket has very slight wear to edges and corners; not price-clipped. Book has gilt titles to spine. Boards, pages and contents are in NF condition with no inscriptions.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. An exploration of the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany. Num Pages: 368 pages, 13 tables, 4 line diagrams, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 647. . 1990. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 367 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - New Profession, Old Order explores the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany. It offers an explanation of why the engineering profession is so successful in transforming the physical world, did not achieve the professional power, cohesion, and prestige that its technological accomplishments would seem to have warranted. On the one hand, engineers were agents of modern instrumental rationality, specialization, practical knowledge, and entrepreneurial capitalism - forces antiasthetical to the quasi-aristocratic world of Bildung and bureaucracy that was the life blood of the preindustrial social hierarchy. On the other hand, it was this latter universe in which engineers had to survive and by whose standards they were judged for membership in the educated middle class or for access to prestigious careers. The result was an orientation that combined the old and the new in ways that were at once uniquely German and paradigmatic for modern industrial society.…

Zustand: gut. New Profession, Old Order In englischer Sprache. pages.