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The Singularity of Western Innovation - The Language Nexus (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Singularity of Western Innovation - The Language Nexus (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book highlights the contribution of language standardization
to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous
studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost
all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the
main cultural centers of three Western states - Britain, France,
and the United states. This book argues that Western Europe and its
offshoots were the only Eurasian societies able to apply typography
cheaply to their writing systems. The emergence in the West of
large networks of people able to communicate in standardized
languages made possible the breakthroughs of the Industrial
Revolution. Military byproducts of three "macro-innovations"- the
steam engine, machine tools, and interchangeable parts - then
constituted the West's toolbox for empire. The book will appeal to
readers seeking to explain how the West attained its unprecedented
advance over Asia in the nineteenth century, and why this lead has
since proved temporary.
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