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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editors' Preface; CHAPTER 1 Stone Age Technology; CHAPTER 2 Hydraulic Civilizations (4000-1500 BCE); CHAPTER 3 Iron, Horses, and Empires (1500 BCE-500 CE); CHAPTER 4 Postclassical and Medieval Revolutions (500-1400); CHAPTER 5 An Age of Global Interactions (1300-1800); CHAPTER 6 The First Industrial Revolution (1750-1869); CHAPTER 7 The Acceleration of Change (1869-1939); CHAPTER 8 Toward a Postindustrial World (1939-2007); Chronology; Notes; Further Reading; Web Sites; Index.