Technology

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Daniel R. Headrick

页数:200

出版时间:2009-4-1

价格:USD 20.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780195338218

丛书系列:The New Oxford World History

图书标签:技术历史美國的歷史歐洲技術史技術

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.

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陈述了历史不同时期出现的技术，而且有简短的评论，叙述这项技术对世界产生了什么样的影响。

陈述了历史不同时期出现的技术，而且有简短的评论，叙述这项技术对世界产生了什么样的影响。

陈述了历史不同时期出现的技术，而且有简短的评论，叙述这项技术对世界产生了什么样的影响。

陈述了历史不同时期出现的技术，而且有简短的评论，叙述这项技术对世界产生了什么样的影响。