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Culture of Improvement Technology and the Western Millennium

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ISBN-10: 026251401X

ISBN-13: 9780262514019

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Friedel

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List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 7.94" wide x 9.00" long x 1.16" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Preface
Technology and Improvement
Plows and Horse
Power
Buildings for God and Man
Transforming Matter
Light and Time
Types of Change
Earth, Fire, Water, and Air
Improving Knowledge
Improvers and Engineers
Raising Fire
Fabrics of Change
Artisans, Philosophes, and Entrepreneurs
Airs and Lightning
Mobility
Messages
Engineering Emerges
Stuff, Reality, and Dreams
The Improvement of Violence
Learning
Dynamics
Land and Life
Scale
The Corruption of Improvement
Networks
Improvement's End
Notes
Index