Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History

Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History
ISBN-10
0262660725
ISBN-13
9780262660723
Category
Science
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
1991-07-01
Publisher
MIT Press
Author
Arnold Pacey

Description

Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another.

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