Leonardo to the internet : technology and culture from the Renaissance to the present

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Leonardo to the internet : technology and culture from the Renaissance to the present

Thomas J. Misa

(John Hopkins studies in the history of technology)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022

3rd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Now updated - A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been shaped by-the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology." In this edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of individual people, artifacts, and systems. Each chapter has been honed to relate to contemporary concerns. Globalization, Misa argues, looks differently considering today's virulent nationalism, cultural chauvinism, and trade wars. A new chapter focuses on the digital age from 1990 to 2016. The book also examines how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability and takes a look at the coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of Wuhan, China's high-tech district. A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world.

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List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Technologies of the Court, 1450-1600 Chapter 2. Techniques of Commerce, 1588-1740 Chapter 3. Geographies of Industry, 1740-1851 Chapter 4. Instruments of Empire, 1840-1914 Chapter 5. Science and Systems, 1870-1930 Chapter 6. Materials of Modernism, 1900-1950 Chapter 7. The Means of Destruction, 1936-1990 Chapter 8. Promises of Global Culture, 1970-2001 Chapter 9. Paths to Insecurity, 2001-2010 Chapter 10. Dominance of the Digital, 1990-2016 Chapter 11. The Question of Technology Notes Essay on Sources Index

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