[PDF.18jk] Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History

Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History

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 | #194716 in Books |  1991-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.76 | File type: PDF | 250 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Well-Argued|By Jiang Xueqin|Arnold Pacey's "Technology in World Civilization" looks at thousands of years of technological progress, and makes two important and intuitive claims. First, technology has arisen due to the circumstances and needs of the culture, and second, imported technology is only useful and effectively if properly adopted to local circumstances and needs.From Publishers Weekly|Pacey, a physicist turned historian, traces the myriad crucial ways by which Western technology benefited from a continuous dialogue wth Chinese, Indian and Islamic civiizations. These cultures' innovations in hydraulic engineering, the sm

Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another.

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