Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.

Misa, Thomas J.:

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Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 03.2004., 2004

0801878098 / 9780801878091

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XX, 324 Seiten Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - The image of the lone inventor transforming society from the outside has a strong hold on the publics imagination. In reality, though, technologies are products of ongoing social and cultural processes. In Leonardo to the Internet, historian Thomas J. Misa provides a sweeping comparative history of the interrelationship between technology and society since the Renaissance, revealing how technological innovations have been shaped by the cultures in which they arose and how such technologies have, in turn, shaped these cultures. From the careers and contributions of Renaissance court inventors Johann Gutenberg and Leonardo da Vinci to beer brewing in industrial London to the telecommunication revolution of the late twentieth century, Misa uses carefully chosen and engagingly told case studies to develop his thesis. -- Over eight thematic chapters, Misa provides detailed portraits of the inventors and users of technologies. Beginning his narrative at the dawn of the modern era, Misa surveys the intersections of technology, politics, and culture in the Renaissance court system of Western Europe; the role of technology in Hollands commercial expansion; the diverse paths to and through Britains industrial revolution; the links among technology, imperialism, and trade in the nineteenth century; and the application of scientific discoveries in chemistry and physics to industry in Germany and the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Misa then examines the introduction of mass-produced consumer goods and their impact on daily life and modernist sensibilities, the rise of the military-industrial complex during World War II, the technological innovations generated by the command-and-control economies of the Cold War, and the emergence of a technology-oriented global culture since the 1970s. The work concludes with a provocative essay laying out the technological choices we face today and considering their impact on the type of society we wish for the future. -- A masterful analysis of the ways in which technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet encourages students and general readers alike to think both more widely and more deeply about the invention, development, transfer, and adaptation of technologies within Western civilization. ISBN 9780801878091 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 482.

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Titolo
Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.
Autore
Misa, Thomas J.:
Editore
Johns Hopkins University Press. 03.2004.
Anno di pubblicazione
2004
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Gut
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kart. / Paperback.
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0801878098
ISBN 13
9780801878091
Peso dell'articolo
482 grammi
Serie
Libro 14 di 27: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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