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Technology : a world history /
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. Head...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | New Oxford world history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 179 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199713660 0199713669 9780199722143 0199722145 9781282053755 1282053752 9786612053757 6612053755 |