ACLS Humanities E-Book: Technology in Western civilization

Technology in Western civilization

Pursell, Carroll W., Kranzberg, Melvin.

Year: 1967.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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Frontmatter

Part I THE EMERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGY

1 / The Importance of Technology in Human Affairs

2 / The Beginnings of Technology and Man

3 / Mesopotamian and Egyptian Technology

4 / The Classical Civilizations

5 / Technology in the Middle Ages

6 / Early Modern Technology, to 1600

Part II BACKGROUND OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1600-1750

7 / Cultural, Intellectual, and Social Foundations, 1600-1750

8 / Economic and Political Developments, 1600-1750

9 / The Agricultural Revolution, 1600-1850

10 / Metallurgy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

11 / Instrumentation

12 / Transportation and Construction, 1300-1800 The Rise of Modern Civil Engineering

Part III THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750-1830

13 / Prerequisites for Industrialization

14 / The Textile Industry, 1750-1830

15 / The Steam Engine Before 1830

16 / Metallurgical and Machine-Tool Developments

17 / Steam Transportation

18 / The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution

Part IV THE AGE OF STEAM AND IRON, 1830-1880

19 / The Invention of Invention

20 / Energy Conversion

21 / Mining and Metallurgical Production, 1800-1880

22 / Buildings and Construction

23 / Machines and Machine Tools, 1830-1880

24 / Food and Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century

25 / Locomotives, Railways, and Steamships

26 / The Beginning of Electricity

27 / Communications

28 / Industrial Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

29 / Military Technology

30 / The Spread of the Industrial Revolution

31 / The Economic Consequences of Technological Change, 1830-1880

32 / Population Movements and Urbanization

33 / Effects of Technology on Domestic Life, 1830-1880

Part V THE PROMISE OF TECHNOLOGICAL FULFILLMENT, 1880-1900

34 / Applications of Electricity

35 / Electrical Generation and Transmission

36 / Metallurgy: Science and Practice Before 1900

37 / Buildings and Construction, 1880-1900

38 / Machines and Tools

39 / Late Nineteenth-Century Communications: Techniques and Machines

40 / The Beginnings of the Internal-Combustion Engine

41 / Expansion of the Petroleum and Chemical Industries, 1880-1900

42 / Mass Production For Mass Consumption

43 / Imperialism and Technology

44 / Expositions of Technology, 1851-1900

45 / Technology and Culture at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The Will to Power

Epilogue

Readings and References

Contributors

Subject Index

Name Index

reviews

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Title:

Technology in Western civilization : edited by Melvin Kranzberg, Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. ; executive editors Paul J. Grogan, Donald F. Kaiser.

Author:

Pursell, Carroll W; Kranzberg, Melvin

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Technology in Western civilization : edited by Melvin Kranzberg, Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. ; executive editors Paul J. Grogan, Donald F. Kaiser.
Pursell, Carroll W, Kranzberg, Melvin
New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

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• Technology and civilization
• Technology -- History

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