The government machine : a revolutionary history of the computer / Jon Agar.
The government machine : a revolutionary history of the computer / Jon Agar.
The government machine : a revolutionary history of the computer / Jon Agar.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N004.0941/1
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English
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viii, 554 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The State of Knowledge -- 1. The Machineries of Government -- 2. "The Parent of a Totally Different Order of Things": Charles Trevelyan and the Civil Service as Machine -- 3. "Chaotic England" and the Organized World: Official Statistics and Expert Statisticians -- 4. "One Universal Re...
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
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Massachusetts
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2003.
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"In The Government Machine Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues that this transformation has been tied to the rise of "expert movements," groups whose authority has rested on their expertise. The deployment of machines was an attempt to gain contr...
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The government machine : a revolutionary history of the computer / Jon Agar.
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History of computing.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-533) and index.
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N004.0941/1
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0262012022
9780262012027 (hc. : alk. paper)
0262012022 (hc. : alk. paper)
9780262012027
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004.0941
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991019037659702626
