| Description |
1 online resource (x, 588 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
The most comprehensive attempt to tell the story of Western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly illustrated, 'A Culture of Improvement' documents the ways in which the drive for improvement has shaped our modern world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-568) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western.
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Intellectual life.
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Technological innovations -- History
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Technology and civilization.
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Civilization, Western
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Intellectual life
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Technological innovations
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Technology and civilization
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Technischer Fortschritt
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Technische vernieuwing.
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Technische ontwikkeling.
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Teknik -- historia.
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Teknikutveckling -- historia.
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Teknik och samhälle.
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Westliche Welt
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Westerse wereld.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1282098640 |
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9781282098640 |
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9780262273237 |
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0262273233 |
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9786612098642 |
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6612098643 |
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