Abbott Payson Usher

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Name Abbott Usher		Education Harvard University
Died June 18, 1965, Salem, Massachusetts, United States People also search for Charles Davenant, Michael Karpovich, Witt Bowden Books A history of mechanical inventions, The industrial history of, The history of the grain trade in F, An introduction to the ind, The Early History of Deposit B

Abbott Payson Usher (1883 – June 18, 1965) was an American economic historian. The Society of the History of Technology has awarded the Abbott Payson Usher Prize, named in his honor, annually since 1961.

In the late 1920s Usher, the American historian Lewis Mumford and the Swiss art historian Sigfried Giedion began to systematically investigate the social consequences of technology. In A History of Mechanical Inventions he argued that technological innovation was a slow, collective process with many contributors, not relying on the genius of great inventors.

Publications

The history of the grain trade in France, 1400-1710. Harvard University Press. 1913. ISBN 0-374-98063-2. (online text)

An introduction to the industrial history of England. Houghton Mifflin company. 1920. (online text)

A History of Mechanical Invention. McGraw-Hill. 1929. (Harvard University Press, 1954; Dover Publications, 1988 ISBN 0-486-25593-X)(online text)

The early history of deposit banking in Mediterranean Europe, (Harvard Economic Studies 75). Harvard University Press. 1943. (online text)

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