عنوان

Technology :

(Number (ISBN

019515648X

(Number (ISBN

0195338219

(Number (ISBN

9780195156485

(Number (ISBN

9780195338218

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Title Proper

Technology :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a world history /

First Statement of Responsibility

Daniel R. Headrick.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 179 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

25 cm.

Series Title

The new Oxford world history

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151-159]) and index.

Text of Note

Stone Age technology -- Hydraulic civilizations (4000-1500 BCE) -- Iron, horses, and empires (1500 BCE-500 CE) -- Postclassical and Medieval revolutions (500-1400) -- An age of global interactions (1300-1800) -- The first industrial revolution (1750-1869) -- The acceleration of change (1869-1939) -- Toward a postindustrial world (1939-2007).

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Text of Note

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. This book offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment: a brilliant history of invention around the globe. The author, an historian 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. This book offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

TVG

Stock Number

73958

Title

Technology.

Technology-- History.

Technische vernieuwing.

Technologie.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Headrick, Daniel R.

Date of Transaction

20150302151106.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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