The Government Machine
A Revolutionary History of the Computer (History of Computing)
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Word Count
141,000 words, Guess
Page Count
564 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10236675M
- ISBN-139780262012027
- ISBN-100262012022
- OCLC Control Number51534863
- OCLC Control Numbergovernmentmachin00agar
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003042121
- Goodreads3189460
- LibraryThing299163
Classifications
- LCCQA76.9.G68 A33 2003
Description
"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 control over state action - a revolutionary move. Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general-purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general-purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant."--Jacket.
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