Technology: a World History

Name: Technology: a World History
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ISBN: 9780195338218

ISBN-10: 0195338219

ISBN-13: 9780195338218

Edition: 2008

Authors: Daniel R. Headrick

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Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Daniel R. Headrick is professor emeritus of social science and history at Roosevelt University. His books include "The Tools of Empire" and "The Earth and Its Peoples".



Editors' Preface



Stone Age Technology



Hydraulic Civilizations (4000-1500 BCE)



Iron, Horses, and Empires (1500 BCE-500 CE)



Postclassical and Medieval Revolutions (500-1400)



An Age of Global Interactions (1300-1800)



The First Industrial Revolution (1750-1869)



The Acceleration of Change (1869-1939)



Toward a Postindustrial World (1939-2007)


Chronology


Notes


Further Reading


Web Sites


Index