A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium /
| Основен автор: | Friedel, Robert D. 1950- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2007.
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| Предмети: | |
| Онлайн достъп: |
Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- Technology and improvement
- Plows and horses
- Power
- Buildings for God and man
- Transforming matter
- Light and time
- Types of change
- Earth, fire, water, and air
- Improving knowledge
- Improvers and engineers
- Raising fire
- Fabrics of change
- Artisans, philosophes, and entrepreneurs
- Airs and lightning
- Mobility
- Messages
- Engineering emerges
- Stuff, reality, and dreams
- The improvement of violence
- Learning
- Dynamics
- Land and life
- Scale
- The corruption of improvement
- Networks
- Improvement's end.