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020			_a978-0-19-533821-8
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100			_aHeadrick, Daniel
245			_aTechnology: A world history _cDaniel Headrick
250			_a1
264			_aEstados Unidos de América : _bOxford _c2009
300			_a180 pàginas _bil. ;
336			_atexto _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_ano mediado _bn _2damedia
338			_avolumen _bnc _2rdacarrier
505			_a1. Stone age technology. 2. hydraulic civilizations(4000-1500BCE). 3. Iron, horses, and empires. 4. Postclassical and medieval revolution.
520			_aToday 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.
526			_aEducación Básica
546			_aTexto: Ingles
650			_aCHRONOLOGY _aTOWARD A POSTINDUSTRIAL WORLD _aWEB SITES
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