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Technics and civilization / by Lewis Mumford ; with a new foreword by Langdon Winner.
LIBRA - Rare CB478 .M8 2010 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology and civilization.
- Industrial arts--History.
- Industrial arts.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 495 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- University of Chicago Press edition.
- Other Title:
- Technics & Civilization
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Cultural preparation
- Agents of mechanization
- The eotechnic phase
- The Paleotechnic phase
- The Neotechnic phase
- Compensations and reversions
- Assimilation of the machine
- Orientation.
- Notes:
- "Cover design: Dustin Kilgore. Book design: Robert Josephy."
- Originally published in 1934 by Harcourt, Inc. Copyright renewed 1962 by Lewis Mumford.
- Contains new foreword, introduction to the 1963 edition and captions to images from the 1934 edition.
- "The 1934 edition ... included fifteen pages of small black-and-white illustrations of the machines or methods of production. It is not practical to reproduce these images here ... But Mumford's captions and their thematic groupings remain an integral part of this book ..."--Note from the publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-474) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- ISBN:
- 9780226550275
- 0226550273
- OCLC:
- 610466991
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