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245 10 a| Leonardo to the Internet :b| technology & culture from the Renaissance to the present /c| Thomas J. Misa.;

250 a| 2nd ed.;

260 a| Baltimore [Md.] :b| Johns Hopkins University Press,c| 2011.;

300 a| xxii, 378 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 23 cm.;

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490 1 a| Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-363) and index.;

505 0 a| Technologies of the court, 1450-1600 -- Techniques of commerce, 1588-1740 -- Geographies of industry, 1740-1851 -- Instruments of empire, 1840-1914 -- Science and systems, 1870-1930 -- Materials of modernism, 1900-1950 -- The means of destruction, 1936-1990 -- Toward global culture, 1970-2001 -- Paths to insecurity, 2001-2010 -- The question of technology.;

520 a| This book is the author's history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped, and have been shaped by, the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this work evaluates what the author, a historian, calls "the question of technology." He brings the text of the first edition up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability. An analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, the book frames a history that illuminates modern day problems and prospects faced by our technology dependent world.;

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Leonardo to the Internet : technology & culture from the Renaissance to the present / Thomas J. Misa.

Author/creator	Misa, Thomas J.
Format	Book
Edition	2nd ed.
Publication Info	Baltimore [Md.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Description	xxii, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Technology--History. Technology and civilization.

Series	Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered) ^A632122
Contents	Technologies of the court, 1450-1600 -- Techniques of commerce, 1588-1740 -- Geographies of industry, 1740-1851 -- Instruments of empire, 1840-1914 -- Science and systems, 1870-1930 -- Materials of modernism, 1900-1950 -- The means of destruction, 1936-1990 -- Toward global culture, 1970-2001 -- Paths to insecurity, 2001-2010 -- The question of technology.
Abstract	This book is the author's history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped, and have been shaped by, the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this work evaluates what the author, a historian, calls "the question of technology." He brings the text of the first edition up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability. An analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, the book frames a history that illuminates modern day problems and prospects faced by our technology dependent world.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-363) and index.
LCCN	2010051496
ISBN	9781421401546 (alk. paper)
ISBN	1421401541 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9781421401539 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	1421401533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard identifier#	40019561866

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