Technology and the West a Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1997
Description:
This broad-ranging anthology provides a condensed overview of technology in Western civilization. Its twenty-one carefully selected articles and overview essays demonstrate the complex relationship between technological and social change from antiquity to the present. Specific topics include the origins of contemporary social and political institutions in the irrigation civilizations of antiquity, technology and the military, popular perceptions of the early industrial revolution in Europe, the difference between invention and innovation, the role of government in the development of technology, the nature of technical expertise, and nuclear power and the environment.
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These two volumes of Technology and Culture articles represent a set of interconnected anthologies that fill a void in the teaching of undergraduate technology studies.
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