New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815-1914 by Kees Gispen - 1989

Cambridge University Press, 1989. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0521371988

Cambridge University Press, 1990-01-26. Hardcover. Good.

United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 357 pages. Signature on end paper. . Previously owned (evidence of normal light use etc) clean hardback in dust jacket. New Profession, Old Order : Engineers and German Society, 1815-1914 . Good. Hardcover. 1990.

Cambridge University Press, 1990-01-26. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Cambridge Univ Pr, 1990. Hardcover. New. 367 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches.

New. 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.

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Cambridge University Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing