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Technology - A World History (Hardcover, New)
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Technology - A World History (Hardcover, New)
Series: New Oxford World History
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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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