Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present - Couverture souple

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Misa, Thomas J.

 
9781421443102: Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
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ISBN 10 : 1421443104 ISBN 13 : 9781421443102
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Now updated -- A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society.

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping 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 compelling work evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology."

In this edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of individual people, artifacts, and systems. Each chapter has been honed to relate to contemporary concerns. Globalization, Misa argues, looks differently considering today's virulent nationalism, cultural chauvinism, and trade wars. A new chapter focuses on the digital age from 1990 to 2016. The book also examines how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability and takes a look at the coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of Wuhan, China's high-tech district.

A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world.

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À propos de l?auteur

Thomas J. Misa (LOPEZ ISLAND, WA) is the author or coauthor of many books, including A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925 and FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1421443104
ISBN 13 
9781421443102
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781421443096: Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present

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ISBN 10 :  1421443090 ISBN 13 :  9781421443096
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022
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