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Arnold Pacey
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Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History |
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English |
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Paperback |
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250 |
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1991-07-01 |
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0262660725 |
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The MIT Press |
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0.6 pounds |
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6.26 x 0.47 x 9.25 inches |
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Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another.Arnold Pacey is a physicist turned historian whose publications have contributed to the British appropriate-technology movement. He has written widely on science, technology, and agriculture. His previous books include The Maze of Ingenuity and The Culture of Technology.
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