Technology and Globalisation: Networks of Experts in World History - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3030092348 ISBN 13 : 9783030092344

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

• Define 'engineers' more broadly than the narrow definition typical of the present-day profession
  
• Study all social actors since the mid-nineteenth century with expertise and social authority in technology and science
  
• Examine the political dimensions of technology
  
• Offers a history of science perspective on economic globalisation

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Pretel is Research Fellow at the Centre for Historical Studies, Colmex, The College of Mexico, Mexico. He specialises in the global history of technology, international economic history and the intellectual history of capitalism, with an ever-increasing interest in Latin American history.

Lino Camprubí is Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Science, UAB Barcelona, Spain. He has been a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany, and a visiting lecturer at University of Chicago, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030092348
• ISBN 13: 9783030092344
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: Pretel David, Camprubí Lino
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