عنوان

Leonardo to the Internet :

(Number (ISBN

1421401533

(Number (ISBN

1421401541

(Number (ISBN

9781421401539

(Number (ISBN

9781421401546

Title Proper

Leonardo to the Internet :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

technology & culture from the Renaissance to the present /

First Statement of Responsibility

Thomas J. Misa.

Edition Statement

2nd ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Baltimore [Md.] :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxii, 378 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-363) and index.

Text of Note

Technologies of the court, 1450-1600 -- Techniques of commerce, 1588-1740 -- Geographies of industry, 1740-1851 -- Instruments of empire, 1840-1914 -- Science and systems, 1870-1930 -- Materials of modernism, 1900-1950 -- The means of destruction, 1936-1990 -- Toward global culture, 1970-2001 -- Paths to insecurity -- The question of technology.

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Text of Note

This book is the author's history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped, and have been shaped by, the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this work evaluates what the author, a historian, calls "the question of technology." He brings the text of the first edition up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability. An analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, the book frames a history that illuminates modern day problems and prospects faced by our technology dependent world.

Technology and civilization.

Technology-- History.

Technology-- history.

Technik.

Techniksoziologie.

Technologie.

Technology and civilization.

Technology.

Teknik och samhälle.

Teknikhistoria.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Misa, Thomas J.

Date of Transaction

20200822182311.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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