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History of Technology, Volume 29 : Technology in China.
The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period? Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. T...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2010.
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| Colección: | History of Technology Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period? Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. This collection surveys such theories but alters the issue by raising the notion that Chinese technologies did not so much fail as move along a path different from that of Europe. Our second collection on the Mindful Hand, also shifts common ground by querying and modifying common views of the links. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (230 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781441177087 1441177086 9781441136114 1441136118 |