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020			_a080187808X (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a0801878098 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aT15 _b.M575 2004
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100	1		_aMisa, Thomas J.
245	1	0	_aLeonardo to the internet : _btechnology & culture from the Renaissance to the present / _cThomas J. Misa.
260			_aBaltimore : _bThe Johns Hopkins University Press, _c2004.
300			_axx, 324 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aJohns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
504			_aIncludes bibliographic references and index.
505			_aContents List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1 Technologies of the Court, 1450-1600 1 2 Techniques of Commerce, 1588-1740 33 3 Geographies of Industry, 1740-1851 59 4 Instruments of Empire, 1840-1914 97 5 Science and Systems, 1870-1930 128 6 Materials of Modernism, 1900-1950 158 7 The Means of Destruction, 1936-1990 190 8 Toward Global Culture, 1970-2001 225 9 The Question of Technology 260 Notes 277 Notes on Sources 303 Index 313
520			_ahe image of the lone inventor transforming society from the outside has a strong hold on the public's imagination. In reality, though, technologies are products of ongoing social and cultural processes. In this book, the author, a historian provides a comparative history of the interrelationship between technology and society since the Renaissance, revealing how technological innovations have been shaped by the cultures in which they arose, and how such technologies have, in turn, shaped these cultures. From the careers and contributions of Renaissance court inventors Johann Gutenberg and Leonardo da Vinci to beer brewing in industrial London to the telecommunication revolution of the late twentieth century, he uses case studies to develop his thesis. Over eight thematic chapters, he provides detailed portraits of the inventors and users of technologies. Beginning his narrative at the dawn of the "modern" era, he surveys the intersections of technology, politics, and culture in the Renaissance court system of Western Europe; the role of technology in Holland's commercial expansion; the diverse "paths" to and through Britain's industrial revolution; the links among technology, imperialism, and trade in the nineteenth century; and the application of scientific discoveries in chemistry and physics to industry in Germany and the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. He then examines the introduction of mass-produced consumer goods and their impact on daily life and modernist sensibilities; the rise of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the technological innovations generated by the command-and-control economies of the Cold War; and the emergence of a technology-oriented global culture since the 1970s. The work concludes with an essay laying out the technological choices we face today and considering their impact on the type of society we wish for the future. This book is an analysis of the ways in which technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries; it encourages students and general readers alike to think both more widely and more deeply about the invention, development, transfer, and adaptation of technologies within Western civilization
650		0	_aTechnology _xHistory.
650		0	_aTechnology and civilization.
830		0	_aJohns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
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