ISBN: 9780521371988

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… Plus…

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 the larger society between 1815 and 1914, and asks why this new occupation, 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. The author proposes answers that center on the historical situation in which the engineering profession found itself. He develops his thesis through careful consideration of the strategies, organization, and development of technical education in nineteenth-century Prussia, the educational struggles and political debates of German engineers and their various associations, changing career prospects, and the relations between engineering management, salaried employees, professionalizers, and government. The result is a study that demonstrates the seamless links between Germany''s long-term socioeconomic modernization and its temporary political traumatization. | New Profession Old Order by Kees Gispen Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History P10103, Kees Gispen<

ISBN: 9780521371988

Hardback, [PU: Cambridge University Press], New Profession, Old Order explores the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany. It offers an explanation of why th… Plus…

Hardback, [PU: Cambridge University Press], 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., European History<

1990, ISBN: 0521371988

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1990, ISBN: 0521371988

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1990, ISBN: 9780521371988

Hard cover, New., Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p., New York, [PU: Cambridge University Press]