History of Technology Volume 25
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
History of Technology Volume 25
By (Author) Professor Ian Inkster
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Leicester University Press
1st December 2004
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
265/.3
Physical Properties
Hardback
238
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
500g
Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Author Bio
Ian Inkster is Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
