EAN: 9780262542463

TECHNOLOGY IN WORLD CIVILIZATION REVISED AND EX...

The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history
of technology  first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research
broke new ground by taking a global view  avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and
placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a world civilization. Case
studies include technological dialogues between China and West Asia in the eleventh century 
medieval African states and the Islamic world  and the United States and Japan post-1950. It
examines railway empires through the examples of Russia and Japan and explores current
synergies of innovation in energy supply and smartphone technology through African cases. The
book uses the term technological dialogue to challenges the top-down concept of technology
transfer  showing instead that technologies are typically modified to fit local needs and
conditions  often triggering further innovation. The authors trace these encounters and
exchanges over a thousand years  examining changes in such technologies as agriculture 
firearms  printing  electricity  and railroads. A new chapter brings the narrative into the
twenty-first century  discussing technological developments including petrochemicals  aerospace
and digitalization from often unexpected global viewpoints and asking what new kind of
industrial revolution is needed to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.

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