num_pages: 250
description: Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another.
language: English
title: Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History
titlecomplete: Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History
genres: Anthropology, Technology, History, Science, Politics, World History, Nonfiction, Economics
ratings_count: 70
publisher: The MIT Press