| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 865 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks
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| Contents |
Ancient written sources for engineering and technology -- Representations of technical processes -- Historiography and theoretical approaches -- Primary, extractive technologies -- Mining and metallurgy -- Quarrying and stoneworking -- Sources of energy and exploitation of power -- Greek and Roman agriculture -- Animal husbandry, hunting, and fishing and fish production -- Engineering and complex machines -- Greek rngineering and construction -- Roman rngineering and construction -- Hydraulic rngineering and water supply -- Tunnels and canals -- Machines in Greek and Roman technology -- Secondary processes and manufacturing -- Food processing and preparation -- Large-scale manufacturing, standardization, and trade -- Metalworking and tools -- Woodworking -- Textile production -- Tanning and leather -- Ceramic production -- Glass production -- Technologies of movement and transport -- Land transport, Part 1: Roads and bridges -- Land transport, Part 2: Riding, harnesses, and vehicles -- Sea transport, Part 1: Ships and navigation -- Sea transport, Part 2: Harbors -- Technologies of death -- Greek warfare and fortification -- Roman warfare and fortification -- Technologies of the mind -- Information technologies: Writing, book production, and the role of literacy -- Timekeeping -- Technologies of calculation : Part 1 : Weights and measures ; Part 2: Coinage ; Part 3: Practical mathematics -- Gadgets and scientific instruments -- Inventors, invention and attitudes toward innovation -- Ancient technologies in the modern world -- Expanding ethnoarchaeology: historical evidence and model-building in the study of technological change |
| Summary |
Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to engineering and technology. This text highlights the accomplishments of the ancient societies, the research problems, and stimulates further progress in the history of ancient technology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Eugene S. Ferguson Prize (Society for the History of Technology), 2009 |
| Subject |
Technology -- Rome -- History
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Technology -- Greece -- History
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Engineering -- Rome -- History
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Engineering -- Greece -- History
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Engineering.
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Technology.
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Greece.
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oleson, John Peter
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| ISBN |
9780199940349 |
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0199940347 |
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9780199734856 |
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0199734852 |
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0195187318 |
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9780195187311 |
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