Inventing the Modern World

by Robert Bud

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078946828X
• ISBN13: 9780789468284
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.6" x 12.2"

Customer Reviews

making modernity

The four authors, Science Museum curators Simon Niziol, Tim Boon, Andrew Nahum and Robert Bud have done a first-rate job in surveying such a wide scope of technological history. Underpinning the work is the proposition that this is 'real' history. It charts world-changing shifts in technology ranging from diesel engines to contraception - changes which are every bit as important as those recorded in the kind of political history that is taught in school.