Wiring Prometheus : globalisation, history and technology

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Wiring Prometheus : globalisation, history and technology

edited by Peter Lyth and Helmuth Trischler

Aarhus University Press, 2004

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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As the 20th century drew to a close, the trend to globalisation became the focus of vigorous debate across the economic and political spectrum. It fascinated businessmen, intoxicated stock markets, angered trade unions, confused politicians and divided academic commentators. Everybody agreed, however, that one key element of the process of globalisation was the role played by new technology. Clearly, technological change has driven globalisation forward, but is it new? Does the evolution of 'globalised technology' have earlier, historical origins? Putting the transfer of technology between nations into historical context, this book considers the degree to which global technologies have made national institutions and traditions of technology redundant. We know that globalisation erodes national cultural values and even the sovereignty of nation states; does it also lead to standardised global technology? Bringing together a cross-disciplinary gathering of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, this book addresses these questions within a broad historical framework.

目次

  • Globalisation, History and Technology: An Introduction
  • Technology and Social Relations: From Patronage to Networks
  • Historical Precedents of Global Markets
  • Technology and Textiles Globalisation
  • Production and Culture in the Global Cycle Industry
  • Global History and the Present Time
  • Taking on the World: Bell, Edison and the Diffusion of the Telephone in the 1870s
  • Towards a Global Telephone Network: Technological Advances in Long-Distance Telephony
  • A Passing Technology: The Automated Teller Machine
  • The Globalisation of Transport? Computerised Reservation Systems at American Airlines and French Railways
  • Boardwalks across the Tar: Software Engineering and the Problems of Safety and Security
  • Audio Cassette Culture and Globalisation
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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