Leonardo to the Internet - Technology and Culture From the Renaissance to the Present

Informationen zum Autor Thomas J. Misa is director of the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. His books include Managing Technology in Society; Modernity and Technology; Urban Machinery! Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing; and the award-winning A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America! 1865-1925! the last also published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext A history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years. Spanning the preindustrial past! the age of scientific! political! and industrial revolutions! as well as the more recent eras of imperialism! modernism! and global security! it evaluates what the author calls "the question of technology". Zusammenfassung A history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years. Spanning the preindustrial past! the age of scientific! political! and industrial revolutions! as well as the more recent eras of imperialism! modernism! and global security! it evaluates what the author calls "the question of technology".

Product details

• Authors: Thomas J. Misa, Thomas J. (University of Minnesota) Misa
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2011
• EAN: 9781421401546
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0154-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H; Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)