Technology In Western Civilization

Author : Melvin Kranzberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in Western Civilization: Technology in the twentieth century written by Melvin Kranzberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1967 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and well-planned account of the history of technology in Western civilization from pre-historic man to the present age of the computer.

Author : Arnold Pacey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542463
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in World Civilization, revised and expanded edition written by Arnold Pacey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a "world civilization." Case studies include "technological dialogues" between China and West Asia in the eleventh century, medieval African states and the Islamic world, and the United States and Japan post-1950. It examines railway empires through the examples of Russia and Japan and explores current synergies of innovation in energy supply and smartphone technology through African cases. The book uses the term "technological dialogue" to challenges the top-down concept of "technology transfer," showing instead that technologies are typically modified to fit local needs and conditions, often triggering further innovation. The authors trace these encounters and exchanges over a thousand years, examining changes in such technologies as agriculture, firearms, printing, electricity, and railroads. A new chapter brings the narrative into the twenty-first century, discussing technological developments including petrochemicals, aerospace, and digitalization from often unexpected global viewpoints and asking what new kind of industrial revolution is needed to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.

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Download or read book Technology in Western Civilization written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melvin Kranzberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in Western Civilization: Technology in the twentieth century written by Melvin Kranzberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1967 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and well-planned account of the history of technology in Western civilization from pre-historic man to the present age of the computer.

Author : Terry S. Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226710341
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology & the West written by Terry S. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. General readers and students will find this collection accessible and engaging.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922030
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Technology written by David Arnold and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world. Few would question the dominant role that technology plays in modern life, but to fully understand how India first advanced into technological modernity, argues David Arnold, we must consider the technology of the everyday. Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate “big” technologies such as railways and irrigation projects, Arnold examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India, and follows their impact on the ways in which people worked and traveled, the clothes they wore, and the kind of food they ate. But the effects of these machines were not limited to the daily rituals of Indian society, and Arnold demonstrates how such small-scale technologies became integral to new ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as well as about the politics of colonial rule and Indian nationhood. Arnold’s fascinating book offers new perspectives on the globalization of modern technologies and shows us that to truly understand what modernity became, we need to look at the everyday experiences of people in all walks of life, taking stock of how they repurposed small technologies to reinvent their world and themselves.

Author : Melvin Kranzberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in Western Civilization: The emergence of modern industrial society, earliest times to 1900 written by Melvin Kranzberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1967 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and well-planned account of the history of technology in Western civilization from pre-historic man to the present age of the computer.

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Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in Western Civilization written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Targowski
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781536107579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Civilization in the 21st Century written by Andrew Targowski and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book took the task of conceptualising Western civilisation in the 21st century. It examines Western Civilisation and its encounters from a viewpoint of the impact of rising Global civilisations in the 21st century. This political and technological success of Western civilisation in the last 500 years triggered a dream of spreading around the globe Democracy and liberal Capitalism. Western society was held together by Christian morality (regardless whether someone was a believer or a non-believer or agnostic). The medicine for all shortcomings faced by Western civilisation in the 21st century is offered by Al Gore in his book "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change" (2013). He thinks that inventions and technology will save Western civilisation. The author of this book argues that vice versa, the rise of certain technologies are the main reason for the decline of Western civilisation. These kind of issues will be investigated in this book and the message is not optimistic, since Westerners, when are poor are wise, and when are better off are stupid. Hence, without practicing wisdom, Western civilisation cannot be revived.

Author : Naomi Oreskes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537956
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of Western Civilization written by Naomi Oreskes and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior scholar presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment—the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies—failed to act, and so brought about the collapse of Western civilization. In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change. Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, the book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so called "carbon combustion complex" that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. Based on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature.