Skill: The Making of Modern Civilization

by Paul Greenhalgh

Book Overview

This book is an examination of the role and history of skill in the modern age, especially in relation to the processes of modernisation and modernity that have transformed our world.

Skill has become a controversial issue, and here Paul Greenhalgh explores how it came to be so. The book is both controversial and readable, centring on the crucial period of 1870-2013. At core a cultural history, Skill is also a thesis concerned with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474239889
• ISBN13: 9781474239882
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 240 Pages