Technology in World Civilization
by Arnold Pacey
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0262660725
- ISBN 13
- 9780262660723
- Seller
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001 The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 2001. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 8th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight bumping to tips. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 238 pp 8vo. Most general histories of technology are centered on Europe focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks through the computer. In this book, the author, takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization" centration. he portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014206
- Title
- Technology in World Civilization
- Author
- Arnold Pacey
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0262660725
- ISBN 13
- 9780262660723
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- technology, world technology, development of technology, ancient world technology, technology spreading, Asian Technology, European technology, industrial movements, railroad empires, gunpowder, technology in the Americas,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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