Paths of Fire : An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology

Adams, Robert McCormick

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Editorial: Princeton University Press (1996), Princeton, 1996

0691026343 / 9780691026343

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24x16cm, xvi,332 pp. "Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here, Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. Repeatedly shifting in direction, this path has been shaped by a host of interacting social, cultural, and scientific forces rather than any deterministic logic. Thus future technological developments, Adams maintains, are predictable only over the very short term. Adams' account highlights Britain and the United States from early modern times onward. Locating the roots of the Industrial Revolution in British economic and social institutions, he goes on to consider the new forms of enterprise in which it was embodied and its loss of momentum in the later nineteenth century. He then turns to the early United States, whose path toward industrialization initially involved considerable "technology transfer" from Britain. Propelled by the advent of mass production, world industrial leadership passed to the United States around the end of the nineteenth Minor rubbing. Small bump to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.…

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Título
Paths of Fire : An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology
Autor
Adams, Robert McCormick
Editorial
Princeton University Press (1996), Princeton
Año de publicación
1996
Encuadernación
orig.cloth
ISBN 10
0691026343
ISBN 13
9780691026343
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History of Technology

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Social - Political & Religious Movements, Indian Subcontinent, Economic & Colonial History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Linguistics; Classical Philology; Archaeology, Anthropology & Comparative Religion, Africa; Asia; Latin America

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