Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History

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MIT Press, 1 lug 1991 - 250 pagine
Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another.
 

Sommario

Scientific revolutions and technical dreams
168
Survival technology in the twentieth century
187
Notes
208

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Informazioni sull'autore (1991)

Arnold Pacey is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, Britain. He is the author of The Culture of Technology (MIT Press, 1983), Technology and World Civilization (MIT Press, 1991), and The Maze of Ingenuity, second edition (MIT Press, 1992).

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