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A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium
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A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium

Author: Robert D Friedel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert D Friedel
ISBN: 0262062623 9780262062626
OCLC Number: 71173933
Description: x, 588 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Technology and improvement -- Plows and horses -- Power -- Buildings for God and man -- Transforming matter -- Light and time -- Types of change -- Earth, fire, water, and air -- Improving knowledge -- Improvers and engineers -- Raising fire -- Fabrics of change -- Artisans, philosophes, and entrepreneurs -- Airs and lightning -- Mobility -- Messages -- Engineering emerges -- Stuff, reality, and dreams -- The improvement of violence -- Learning -- Dynamics -- Land and life -- Scale -- The corruption of improvement -- Networks -- Improvement's end.
Responsibility: Robert Friedel.

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