ISBN10: 0226550273, ISBN13: 9780226550275, [publisher: University of Chicago Press 2010-11-30, Chicago] Softcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 0226550273, ISBN13: 9780226550275, [publisher: University of Chicago Press] Softcover 2010. Reprint. Paperback. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, this title explains the origin of the machine age and traces its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Num Pages: 522 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; PDR; PDX; TBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708. . . . . .
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ISBN10: 0226550273, ISBN13: 9780226550275, [publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL] Softcover Paperback. Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand yearsand to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.Journal of Technology and Culture Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, this title explains the origin of the machine age and traces its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle ...
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Date: 2010. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2010. 15.2cm x 22.9cm. XXVII, 495 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Includes for example the following chapters: Agents of Mechanization / The Eotechnic Phase / The Paleotechnic Phase / The Neotechnic Phase etc. 2010. ISBN 0226550273 9780226550275 [IE]