History of Technology (29) - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1441136118 ISBN 13 : 9781441136114

Editeur : Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2009

Synopsis

The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period? Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. This collection surveys such theories but alters the issue by raising the notion that Chinese technologies did not so much fail as move along a path different from that of Europe. Our second collection on the Mindful Hand, also shifts common ground by querying and modifying common views of the links between knowledge and technique in early-modern European development. Scientific or related knowledge was not brought to technique as a socio-cultural gift from an educated elite to the working man. Rather, educated gents, practitioners, instrument makers, craftsfolk and technicians of all kinds intermingled both socially and in terms of the recognition of technical problems as well as in the assemblage of the mental, commercial and cognitive resources required to pursue innovative production projects.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History, Faculty of Humanities, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1441136118
• ISBN 13: 9781441136114
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Inkster Professor Ian
• Coordonnées du fabricant: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie