[PDF] Technology In Western Civilization Technology In The Twentieth Century eBook

Author : Melvin Kranzberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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A complete and well-planned account of the history of technology in Western civilization from pre-historic man to the present age of the computer.

Author : Robert Douglas Friedel
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
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How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226922030

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In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world. Few would question the dominant role that technology plays in modern life, but to fully understand how India first advanced into technological modernity, argues David Arnold, we must consider the technology of the everyday. Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate “big” technologies such as railways and irrigation projects, Arnold examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India, and follows their impact on the ways in which people worked and traveled, the clothes they wore, and the kind of food they ate. But the effects of these machines were not limited to the daily rituals of Indian society, and Arnold demonstrates how such small-scale technologies became integral to new ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as well as about the politics of colonial rule and Indian nationhood. Arnold’s fascinating book offers new perspectives on the globalization of modern technologies and shows us that to truly understand what modernity became, we need to look at the everyday experiences of people in all walks of life, taking stock of how they repurposed small technologies to reinvent their world and themselves.

Author : Terry S. Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226710341

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This broad-ranging anthology provides a condensed overview of technology in Western civilization. Its twenty-one carefully selected articles and overview essays demonstrate the complex relationship between technological and social change from antiquity to the present. Specific topics include the origins of contemporary social and political institutions in the irrigation civilizations of antiquity, technology and the military, popular perceptions of the early industrial revolution in Europe, the difference between invention and innovation, the role of government in the development of technology, the nature of technical expertise, and nuclear power and the environment. General readers and students will find this collection accessible and engaging.