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22 produkter
Technology
A World History
Häftad, 2009
459 kr
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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. …
Power over Peoples
Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present
Häftad, 2012
333 kr
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For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. Power over Peoples examines Western …
Power over Peoples
Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present
E-bok, 2012
441 kr
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A major history of technology and Western conquest For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed …
Tentacles of Progress
Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
E-bok, 1988
621 kr
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This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the …
Humans versus Nature
A Global Environmental History
Inbunden, 2020
2375 kr
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Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained …
Humans versus Nature
A Global Environmental History
Häftad, 2020
846 kr
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Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained …
Humans versus Nature
A Global Environmental History
E-bok, 2019
586 kr
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Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained …
Humans versus Nature
A Global Environmental History
E-bok, 2019
586 kr
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Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained …
The Tentacles of Progress
Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
Häftad, 1990
905 kr
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Daniel Headrick examines why the massive transfer of Western technology to European colonies did not spark an industrial revolution in those countries. Rather than spurring economic progress, he argues, the transfer of stock technology between 1850 and 1940 caused the traditional self-sufficient …
The Invisible Weapon
Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945
Inbunden, 1992
3508 kr
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Telecommunication is, and always has been, a political technology, as the timely flow of information is a vital instrument of power. This book examines the political history of telecommunications between 1851, the year the first telegraph cable linked France and Britain, and the end of World War …
When Information Came of Age
Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850
Inbunden, 2001
3272 kr
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Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and …
When Information Came of Age
Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850
Häftad, 2002
1186 kr
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Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and …
Technology
A World History
Inbunden, 2009
2139 kr
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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. …
Tentacles of Progress
Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
E-bok, 1988
699 kr
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This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the …
When Information Came of Age
Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850
E-bok, 2000
789 kr
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Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and …
Technology: A World History
E-bok, 2009
336 kr
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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. …
Invisible Weapon
Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945
E-bok, 1991
571 kr
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A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He argues that this technology gave society new options. In times of …
When Information Came of Age
Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850
E-bok, 2000
789 kr
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Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and …
Technology: A World History
E-bok, 2009
336 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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. …
The Invisible Weapon
Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945
Häftad, 2012
821 kr
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A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He argues that this technology gave society new options. In times of …
Invisible Weapon
Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945
E-bok, 2012
571 kr
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A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He argues that this technology gave society new options. In times of …
Power over Peoples
Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present
Inbunden, 2009
685 kr
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For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. Power over Peoples examines Western …
