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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.Gispen, C. W. is the author of 'New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815-1914' with ISBN 9780521371988 and ISBN 0521371988.
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