Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914 Control of Nature

Name: Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914 Control of Nature
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ISBN: 9781591023678

ISBN-10: 159102367X

ISBN-13: 9781591023678

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Eric Dorn Brose

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In this revised, expanded edition of his critically acclaimed book, Eric Dorn Brose weaves a fabric from three histories that, until now, have been thought of as mutually exclusive. The history of technology, the history of science, and the history of economic development leading to the Industrial Revolution have been written to a very great degree as three histories. For decades historians of science and technology agreed with one another that until the 1900s there was little causative interaction between the subjects they studied. Moreover, economists treated science and technology as 'residual' factors that were important only to the extent that they could be measured. Few historians…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 12/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 133
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.30" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English




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