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13 produkter
Technology in World Civilization, revised and expanded edition
Av Francesca Bray, Arnold Pacey
E-bok, 2021
514 kr
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Moving Crops and the Scales of History
Av Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
374 kr
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A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop“Refreshingly perceptive. . . . A pathbreaking book that I can’t recommend enough.”—Harro Maat, Technology and CultureHuman efforts to move crops from one …
Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Great Transformations Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2013
2591 kr
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What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, …
Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Great Transformations Reconsidered
Häftad, 2013
848 kr
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What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, …
Rice Economies
Technology and Development in Asian Societies
Häftad, 1994
397 kr
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The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe. The Rice Economies, drawing on original …
Technology and Gender
Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
Häftad, 1997
471 kr
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In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived …
Rice Economies
Technology and Development in Asian Societies
E-bok, 1994
464 kr
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The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe. The Rice Economies , drawing on …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture
Av Joseph Needham, Francesca Bray
Inbunden, 1984
4256 kr
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This second part of the sixth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is the first to be written by a collaborator. Francesca Bray, working closely with Dr Needham, has produced the most comprehensive study of Chinese agriculture to be published in the West. From a huge mass of source material, …
Rice
Global Networks and New Histories
Av Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1928 kr
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Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious …
Rice
Global Networks and New Histories
Av Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
687 kr
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Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious …
Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Great Transformations Reconsidered
E-bok, 2013
977 kr
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What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, …
Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Great Transformations Reconsidered
E-bok, 2013
999 kr
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What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, …
Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China
The Warp and the Weft
Av Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
3962 kr
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This collection offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. Conveying technical knowledge in China through charts, plans or drawings (tu) dates back to antiquity. Earlier studies focused on specialised forms of tu like maps or drawings of …
