Technology in world civilization : a thousand-year history
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Technology in world civilization : a thousand-year history
MIT Press, 1991, c1990
1st MIT Press ed
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-225) and index
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Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another.
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