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Technology: A World History
Daniel R. Headrick
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Description for Technology: A World History
Paperback. Series: New Oxford World History. Num Pages: 200 pages, 31 black and white half tone illustrations. BIC Classification: TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 306.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
191
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
New Oxford World History
Condition
New
Weight
307g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195338218
SKU
V9780195338218
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About Daniel R. Headrick
Daniel R. Headrick is Professor of History and Social Science at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Reviews for Technology: A World History
Headrick restores a broad definition of technology that enhances the value of this wide-ranging survey....it suits the New Oxford World History series goals of highlighting major trends and stimulating thinking.
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