Technology: A world history Daniel Headrick

By:

Headrick, Daniel

Material type: Text

TextEstados Unidos de América : Oxford 2009Edition: 1Description: 180 pàginas ilContent type:

texto

Media type:

no mediado

Carrier type:

volumen

ISBN:

978-0-19-533821-8

Subject(s):

CHRONOLOGY TOWARD A POSTINDUSTRIAL WORLD WEB SITES

DDC classification:

663.2 H4335te

Contents:

1. Stone age technology. 2. hydraulic civilizations(4000-1500BCE). 3. Iron, horses, and empires. 4. Postclassical and medieval revolution.

Summary: 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 discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results?how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libros	Biblioteca La Matriz INGLES / LA MATRIZ	Acervo general de Libros	663.2 H4335te (Browse shelf(Opens below))	V.1 Ej.1	Available		004215-12

1. Stone age technology. 2. hydraulic civilizations(4000-1500BCE). 3. Iron, horses, and empires. 4. Postclassical and medieval revolution.

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 discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results?how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.

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