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A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / Robert Friedel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friedel, Robert D. (Robert Douglas), 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technological innovations--History.
- Technological innovations.
- History.
- Technology and civilization.
- Civilization, Western.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- x, 588 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- 1 Technology and Improvement 1
- 2 Plows and Horses 13
- 3 Power 31
- 4 Buildings for God and Man 49
- 5 Transforming Matter 71
- 6 Light and Time 91
- 7 Types of Change 113
- 8 Earth, Fire, Water, and Air 129
- 9 Improving Knowledge 149
- 10 Improvers and Engineers 171
- 11 Raising Fire 191
- 12 Fabrics of Change 211
- 13 Artisans, Philosophes, and Entrepreneurs 235
- 14 Airs and Lightning 255
- 15 Mobility 275
- 16 Messages 295
- 17 Engineering Emerges 319
- 18 Stuff, Reality, and Dreams 341
- 19 The Improvement of Violence 363
- 20 Learning 385
- 21 Dynamics 401
- 22 Land and Life 429
- 23 Scale 449
- 24 The Corruption of Improvement 479
- 25 Networks 503
- 26 Improvement's End 527.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-568) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0262062623
- 9780262062626
- OCLC:
- 71173933
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