Technology and Change in History – serie
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Wind, Water, Work
Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology
Av Adam Lucas
Inbunden, 2005
3452 kr
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This book is the most comprehensive empirical study to date of the social and technical aspects of milling during the ancient and medieval periods.Drawing on the latest archaeological evidence and historical studies, the book examines the chronological development and technical details of …
Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Fresh Perspectives, New Methods
Inbunden, 2008
2620 kr
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In scope, this book matches The History of Cartography, vol. 1 (1987) edited by Brian Harley and David Woodward. Now, twenty years after the appearance of that seminal work, classicists and medievalists from Europe and North America highlight, distill and reflect on the remarkably productive …
Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2009
4311 kr
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These essays offer scholars, teachers, and students a new basis for discussing attitudes toward, and technological expertise concerning, water in antiquity through the early Modern period, and they examine historical water use and ideology both diachronically and cross regionally. Topics include …
From the Romans to the Railways
The Fate of Antiquities in Asia Minor
Inbunden, 2013
3841 kr
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This multi-disciplinary account of the fate of ancient monuments and technologies in Asia Minor studies the processes and their results with the help of archaeology, history, construction engineering, and travel documentation. To clarify changes, their causes and repercussions, it compares …
Invisible Bicycle
Parallel Histories and Different Timelines
Inbunden, 2018
2163 kr
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The Invisible Bicycle brings together different insights into the social, cultural and economic history of the bicycle and cycling in historical eras of ubiquitous bicycle use that have remained relatively invisible in bicycle history. It revisits the typical timeline of cycling’s decline in the …
Tale of Three Thirsty Cities
The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
Inbunden, 2017
2593 kr
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In A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities: The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Chaim Shulman presents an analysis of three projects of urban water supply systems carried out between 1560s–1610s. The technical and economic differences …
Lost Knowledge
The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories
Inbunden, 2019
2902 kr
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Lost Knowledge: The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories examines the idea of lost knowledge, reaching back to a period between myth and history. It investigates a peculiar idea found in a number of early texts: that there were civilizations with knowledge of sophisticated …
Kao Gong Ji
The World’s Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies
Inbunden, 2019
2928 kr
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In Kao Gong Ji: The World’s Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies, Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann offer an English translation and commentary of the first technological encyclopaedia in China. This work came into being around the 5th century C.E. and contains descriptions of thirty technologies …
Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800
Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology
Av Phillip Reid
Inbunden, 2020
2485 kr
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In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid refutes the long-held assumption that merchant ship technology in the British Atlantic during the two centuries of its development was static for all intents and purposes, and that whatever incremental changes took place in it …
Theory’s Practice: Reflections on Technology in Germany around 1800
Inbunden, 2025
2288 kr
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What is technology? When we grapple with this question, we try to understand something fundamental about humanity, given that technical objects and practices inform every aspect of our lives. The focus in this study on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany underscores a pivotal …
