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Technology

A History

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An edition of Technology (2008)

Technology

A History

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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. 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.

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Technology: A History
2008, Oxford University Press
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Technology: a world history
2008, Oxford University Press
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T15.H42 2008, T15 .H42 2009

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Hardcover
Number of pages
176

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Open Library
OL10133464M
Internet Archive
technologyworldh00head
ISBN 10
019515648X
ISBN 13
9780195156485
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2008033426
OCLC/WorldCat
221155133
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8519797

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