| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 179 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
The new Oxford world history |
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New Oxford world history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index. |
| Contents |
Editors' Preface; CHAPTER 1 Stone Age Technology; CHAPTER 2 Hydraulic Civilizations (4000-1500 BCE); CHAPTER 3 Iron, Horses, and Empires (1500 BCE-500 CE); CHAPTER 4 Postclassical and Medieval Revolutions (500-1400); CHAPTER 5 An Age of Global Interactions (1300-1800); CHAPTER 6 The First Industrial Revolution (1750-1869); CHAPTER 7 The Acceleration of Change (1869-1939); CHAPTER 8 Toward a Postindustrial World (1939-2007); Chronology; Notes; Further Reading; Web Sites; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Technology -- History.
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Technology.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- History.
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Technology. (OCoLC)fst01145078
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Technologie.
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Technische vernieuwing.
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Technik.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Headrick, Daniel R. Technology. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009 9780195338218 0195338219 (DLC) 2008033426 (OCoLC)221155133 |
| ISBN |
9780199722143 (electronic bk.) |
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0199722145 (electronic bk.) |
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