Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year HistoryMIT Press, 1991 M07 1 - 250 pages 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. |
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Scientific revolutions and technical dreams | 168 |
Survival technology in the twentieth century | 187 |
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