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Technology A World History
Author | : Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2009-02-25 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780199713660 |
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Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.
Science and Technology in World History
Author | : James Edward McClellan,Harold Dorn |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801883598 |
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Technology in World Civilization revised and expanded edition
Author | : Arnold Pacey,Francesca Bray |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780262542463 |
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The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a "world civilization." Case studies include "technological dialogues" between China and West Asia in the eleventh century, medieval African states and the Islamic world, and the United States and Japan post-1950. It examines railway empires through the examples of Russia and Japan and explores current synergies of innovation in energy supply and smartphone technology through African cases. The book uses the term "technological dialogue" to challenges the top-down concept of "technology transfer," showing instead that technologies are typically modified to fit local needs and conditions, often triggering further innovation. The authors trace these encounters and exchanges over a thousand years, examining changes in such technologies as agriculture, firearms, printing, electricity, and railroads. A new chapter brings the narrative into the twenty-first century, discussing technological developments including petrochemicals, aerospace, and digitalization from often unexpected global viewpoints and asking what new kind of industrial revolution is needed to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.
Technology and Society
Author | : Andrew Ede |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108425605 |
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Celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.
Technology in World History Early empires
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Author | : W. Bernard Carlson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Technology and civilization |
ISBN | : 0195218221 |
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From the invention of the wheel to the mapping of the genome, technology has always been deeply intertwined with the course of human history. Now, this fascinating set explores the role technology has played in eighteen separate cultures in world history, and reveals the many ways people use technology to control their environment, express religious values, deploy political power, confer social status, and afford themselves varying degrees of pleasure, comfort, and security. Whether focusing on Egyptian pyramids or medieval cathedrals, the Mayan astronomical calendar or the internet, Technology in World History illuminates the amazing array of technologies that humans have developed to shape and give meaning to their lives.
A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A D 1900
Author | : Thomas Kingston Derry,Trevor Illtyd Williams |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 817 |
Release | : 1960-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780486274720 |
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Highly readable, profusely illustrated survey relates technology to history of every age: food production, metalworking, mining, steam power, transportation, electricity, and much more. 354 black-and-white illustrations. 1961 edition.
The Shock of the Old
Author | : David Edgerton |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199832613 |
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In this new history, David Edgerton invites us to rethink how technology is used. For instance, horses contributed more to Nazi conquests than the V2. In influence, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad matches Bill Gates. And corrugated iron is not dead yet.
Power Over Peoples
Author | : Daniel R. Headrick |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2012-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691154329 |
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In this work, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others.