Leonardo to the Internet Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present

Name: Leonardo to the Internet Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
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ISBN: 9781421401539

ISBN-10: 1421401533

ISBN-13: 9781421401539

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Thomas J. Misa

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Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped -- and have been shaped by -- the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology." Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy consumption, insecure information gathering, and vulnerable global shipping industry have helped foster geopolitical risks and…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 7/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



Technologies of the Court, 1450-1600



Techniques of Commerce, 1588-1740



Geographies of Industry, 1740-1851



Instrument's of Empire, 1840-1914



Science and Systems, 1870-1930



Materials of Modernism, 1900-1950



The Means of Destruction, 1936-1990



Toward Global Culture, 1970-2001



Paths to Insecurity, 2001-2010



The Question of Technology


Notes


Notes on Sources


Index