Stronger Than A Hundred Men

Author : Terry S. Reynolds
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801872488
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stronger Than a Hundred Men written by Terry S. Reynolds and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact" was for centuries man's primary mechanical source of power and was the foundation upon which mills and other industries developed. Stronger than a Hundred Men explores the development of the vertical water wheel from its invention in ancient times through its eventual demise as a source of power during the Industrial Revolution. Spanning more than 2000 years, Terry Reynolds's account follows the progression of this labor-saving device from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and America-covering the evolution of the water wheel itself, the development of dams and reservoirs, and the applications of water power.

Author : Jonathan Daly
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441144757
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Western Power written by Jonathan Daly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West's history is one of extraordinary success; no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has left so powerful a mark upon the world. The Rise of Western Power charts the West's achievements-representative government, the free enterprise system, modern science, and the rule of law-as well as its misdeeds-two frighteningly destructive World Wars, the Holocaust, imperialistic domination, and the Atlantic slave trade. Adopting a global perspective, Jonathan Daly explores the contributions of other cultures and civilizations to the West's emergence. Historical, geographical, and cultural factors all unfold in the narrative. Adopting a thematic structure, the book traces the rise of Western power through a series of revolutions-social, political, technological, military, commercial, and industrial, among others. The result is a clear and engaging introduction to the history of Western civilization.

Author : Harvard University
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.YA/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Committee Appointed to Consider the Subject of College Athletics, and to Report Thereon to the Faculty written by Harvard University and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pamphlets on Physical Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Periodical and Occasional Publications written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of miscellaneous writings.

Author : George Graham Suggs (Jr.)
Publisher : Editorial Galaxia
ISBN 13 : 9780806122595
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Mills of the Missouri Ozarks written by George Graham Suggs (Jr.) and published by Editorial Galaxia. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Mitterauer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226532380
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Europe? written by Michael Mitterauer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe’s unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, Why Europe? tackles these classic questions with illuminating results. Michael Mitterauer traces the roots of Europe’s singularity to the medieval era, specifically to developments in agriculture. While most historians have located the beginning of Europe’s special path in the rise of state power in the modern era, Mitterauer establishes its origins in rye and oats. These new crops played a decisive role in remaking the European family, he contends, spurring the rise of individualism and softening the constraints of patriarchy. Mitterauer reaches these conclusions by comparing Europe with other cultures, especially China and the Islamic world, while surveying the most important characteristics of European society as they took shape from the decline of the Roman empire to the invention of the printing press. Along the way, Why Europe? offers up a dazzling series of novel hypotheses to explain the unique evolution of European culture.

Author : Joshua Getzler
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Modern Legal
ISBN 13 : 9780198265818
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Water Rights at Common Law written by Joshua Getzler and published by Oxford Studies in Modern Legal. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water resources were central to England's precocious economic development in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and then again in the industrial, transport, and urban revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of these periods saw a great deal of legal conflict over water rights, often between domestic, agricultural, and manufacturing interests competing for access to flowing water. From 1750 the common-law courts developed a large but unstable body of legal doctrine, specifying strong property rights in flowing water attached to riparian possession, and also limited rights to surface and underground waters. The new water doctrines were built from older concepts of common goods and the natural rights of ownership, deriving from Roman and Civilian law, together with the English sources of Bracton and Blackstone. Water law is one of the most Romanesque parts of English law, demonstrating the extent to which Common and Civilian law have commingled. Water law stands as a refutation of the still-common belief that English and European law parted ways irreversibly in the twelfth century. Getzler also describes the economic as well as the legal history of water use from early times, and examines the classical problem of the relationship between law and economic development. He suggests that water law was shaped both by the impact of technological innovations and by economic ideology, but above all by legalism.

Author : P. Kroes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401580103
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technological Development and Science in the Industrial Age written by P. Kroes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and philosophers of technology are searching for new approaches to the study of the interaction between science and technology. New conceptual frameworks are necessary since the idea that technology is simply applied science is nothing short of a myth. The papers contained in this volume deal primarily with cognitive and social aspects of the science-technology issue. One of the most salient features of these papers is that they show a major methodological shift in studying the interaction between science and technology. Discussions of the science-technology issue have long been dominated by the demarcartion problem and related semantic issues about the notions `science' and `technology', and the `technology is applied science' thesis. Instead of general `global' interpretation schemes and models of the interaction between science and technology, detailed empirical case studies of cognitive and institutional connections between `science' and `technology' constitute the hard core of this book. The book will be of interest to philosophers of science, historians and philosophers of technology and science and sociologists of science.

Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191617180
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime written by William Doyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime, an international team of thirty contributors survey and present current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe. The idea of the Ancien Régime was invented by the French revolutionaries to define what they hoped to destroy and replace. But it was not a precise definition, and although historians have found it conceptually useful, there is wide disagreement about what the Ancien Régime's main features were, how they worked, how old they were, how far they stretched, how dynamic or inert they were, and how far the revolutionaries succeeded in their ambitions to eradicate them. In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer areas of research into the Ancien Régime are presented and assessed, and there has been no attempt to impose any sort of consensus. The result shows what a lively field of historical enquiry the Ancien Régime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of historical problems which it continues to pose.