The Shock of the Old Technology and Global History Since 1900
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publish date: 01/15/2007
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"David Edgerton is an historian with an economist's eye. He can deliver a cost-benefit analysis of the V-2 rocket and yet dig out hundreds of historian's tales, of the rickshaw still in use, and the killing lines in meatpacking. By asking us to look at the history of actual use and actualadvantage, he demolishes scores of myths: about Teflon, DDT, the Atomic bomb, motor transport, and maintaining your office building. This is technological history brought out of the Romantic age of the Hero Inventor, male, Western, imperial. Edgerton's heroism is our common human ingenuity, in theRio slum and in the Cambridge laboratory."--Deirdre McCloskey, Professor of History and of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
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