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Leonardo to the Internet

Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
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Now updated - A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been shaped by-the cultures in which they arose. 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, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology." In this edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of individual people, artifacts, and systems. Each chapter has been honed to relate to contemporary concerns. Globalization, Misa argues, looks differently considering today's virulent nationalism, cultural chauvinism, and trade wars. A new chapter focuses on the digital age from 1990 to 2016. The book also examines how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability and takes a look at the coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of Wuhan, China's high-tech district. A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world.
Thomas J. Misa (LOPEZ ISLAND, WA) is the author or coauthor of many books, including A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925 and FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World.
List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. Technologies of the Court, 14501600 2. Techniques of Commerce, 15881740 3. Geographies of Industry, 17401851 4. Instruments of Empire, 18401914 5. Science and Systems, 18701930 6. Materials of Modernism, 19001950 7. The Means of Destruction, 19361990 8. Promises of Global Culture, 19702001 9. Paths to Insecurity, 2001-2010 10. Dominance of the Digital, 1990-2016 11. The Question of Technology Notes Essay on Sources Index
Now updated - A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society.
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