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. Arnold Pacey is a physicist turned historian whose publications have contributed to the British appropriate-technology movement. He has written widely on science, technology, and Technology in World Civilization - Arnold Pacey od authora Arnold Pacey a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Arnold Pacey |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
250 |
| Rok vydání |
1990 |
| Typ |
filmy |
| Nakladatelství |
The MIT Press |
