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Article: [Surviving trench warfare: technology & the Canadian corps, 1914-1918]
- Article from:
- Journal of Canadian Studies
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Trent University Summer 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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On the surface, it seems that the history of science and technology in Canada suffers from a lack of heroes and drama: after all, most world - altering inventions and discoveries seem to have occurred elsewhere, as ground - breaking change seems to have been imported rather than indigenous. Yet this misses the point. Much recent British and American scholarship de - emphasizes concepts of "discovery" and "invention" in favour of new models in which scientific and technological change is a gradual, socially conditioned transformation with few actual points of revolutionary change. One writer disputes the occurrence of intentional discovery, arguing instead in favour of a strict process of ...
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