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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):398-400; doi:10.1093/es/khn037
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org.

Atsushi Akera. Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. ix + 412 pp. ISBN 0-262-01231-6, $40.00 (cloth)

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This ambitious book retells a familiar story by introducing new evidence and new perspectives. The story is the origins of American computer development in the middle decades of the twentieth century. The new evidence includes archival sources from academia and industry. The new perspective is constructivist and postconstructivist theory. The results are simultaneously predictable and illuminating.

Akera's book is not so much a revised narrative as it is a succession of case studies, some familiar and some original. Conventional . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alex Roland

Duke University


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