Technology: A World History

by Daniel R. Headrick

Book Overview

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195338219
• ISBN13: 9780195338218
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"