Technology: a world history
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1. Verfasser: Headrick, Daniel R. 1941- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press ©2009
Schriftenreihe:New Oxford world history
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index
Editors' Preface; CHAPTER 1 Stone Age Technology; CHAPTER 2 Hydraulic Civilizations (4000-1500 BCE); CHAPTER 3 Iron, Horses, and Empires (1500 BCE-500 CE); CHAPTER 4 Postclassical and Medieval Revolutions (500-1400); CHAPTER 5 An Age of Global Interactions (1300-1800); CHAPTER 6 The First Industrial Revolution (1750-1869); CHAPTER 7 The Acceleration of Change (1869-1939); CHAPTER 8 Toward a Postindustrial World (1939-2007); Chronology; Notes; Further Reading; Web Sites; Index
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
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