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Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature show more through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of show lessTags
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Daniel R . Headrick is Professor of Social Science and History Emeritus at Roosevelt University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (OUP); The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945 (OUP); Technology: A World History show more (OUP); and Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present. show less
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- Technology: a World history
- Original publication date
- 2009
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