Leonardo to the Internet : Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present Paperback / softback
by Thomas J. (University of Minnesota) Misa
Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology series
Paperback / softback
Description
Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been shaped by-the cultures in which they arose.
Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology." Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability.
A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 54 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:09/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781421401539
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 54 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:09/09/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781421401539
