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Technology a world history

Paperback • 2009 • English

Technology a world history

By Daniel R. Headrick

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About the book

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 thegrowing power of humans over nature through...Show more

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9780195338218

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Technology a world history

Format

Paperback

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