STSC 212 Science, Technology and Warfare
Cross-listed as HSOC 212, STSC 212
Offered:Fall 2009
Hersh W 5:30-8:30
This is an LPS course. Students from the College may register beginning the 2nd day of the fall term.
In this survey we explore the relationships between technical knowledge and war in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We attend particularly to the centrality of bodily injury in the history of war. Topics include changing interpretations of the machine gun as inhumane or acceptable; the cult of the battleship; banned weaponry; submarines and masculinity; industrialized war and total war; trench warfare and mental breakdown; the atomic bomb and Cold War; chemical warfare in Viet Nam; and "television war" in the 1990s.
