Technology in World Civilization
A Thousand-Year History
ISBN: 9780262542463 | Copyright 2021
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| Contents (pg. vii) | |
| Preface to the Revised Edition (pg. ix) | |
| Coauthor’s Note (pg. xv) | |
| Credits for Illustrations (pg. xvii) | |
| 1. An Age of Asian Technology, AD 700–1100 (pg. 1) | |
| A Balance in World History (pg. 1) | |
| Hydraulic Engineering (pg. 6) | |
| A New City in Mesopotamia (pg. 9) | |
| Indian Ocean Trade (pg. 13) | |
| Buddhists and Technology (pg. 17) | |
| Perspectives (pg. 20) | |
| 2. Complexes and Contrasts in Basic Technology, AD 1100–1260 (pg. 23) | |
| Asian Conflicts (pg. 23) | |
| Spinning Wheels and Winding Machines (pg. 28) | |
| Technology Complexes and Food Production (pg. 34) | |
| Fine Technology (pg. 39) | |
| The Years of Upheaval (pg. 43) | |
| 3. Movements West, 1150–1490 (pg. 45) | |
| Islam and Africa (pg. 45) | |
| Islam and Europe (pg. 49) | |
| Making Paper (pg. 50) | |
| Crusaders and Mongols (pg. 53) | |
| Gunpowder and Firearms (pg. 55) | |
| The Diffusion of Technology (pg. 60) | |
| The Fourteenth-Century Watershed (pg. 63) | |
| 4. Agroecology in the Americas and Asian Trade (pg. 69) | |
| Independent Invention (pg. 69) | |
| Biological Resources (pg. 72) | |
| Indian Ocean Shipping (pg. 76) | |
| Silver from Peru and Gold from Africa (pg. 82) | |
| 5. Gunpowder Empires, 1450–1650 (pg. 87) | |
| Turkish Ascendancy (pg. 87) | |
| Gunpowder and Society (pg. 90) | |
| Japanese Muskets (pg. 104) | |
| 6. Printing, Books, and Ideas about Technology, 1550–1750 (pg. 109) | |
| Developments in Printing (pg. 109) | |
| Concepts in Organization and Mechanization (pg. 117) | |
| Innovation at a Silk Mill (pg. 119) | |
| Factories and Plantations (pg. 122) | |
| 7. Three Industrial Movements, 1700–1815 (pg. 127) | |
| Problems of Resources (pg. 127) | |
| Steam Engines, Iron, and Coal (pg. 129) | |
| A Second Industrial Movement (pg. 134) | |
| The Challenge of Quality Imports (pg. 136) | |
| A Third Industrial Movement (pg. 140) | |
| Deindustrialization (pg. 147) | |
| 8. Guns and Rails: Asia, Britain, and America (pg. 151) | |
| Asian Stimulus (pg. 151) | |
| 9. Railway Empires, 1850–1940 (pg. 173) | |
| Rails in Russia (pg. 173) | |
| Japanese Technology (pg. 176) | |
| Innovation and Dialogue (pg. 180) | |
| Imperialist Dimensions (pg. 182) | |
| Silver Geometry (pg. 187) | |
| Production Symbolism (pg. 191) | |
| 10. Scientific Discoveries and Technical Dreams, 1860–1960 (pg. 195) | |
| Electricity and Chemistry (pg. 195) | |
| The New Engine (pg. 198) | |
| The Swallows Fly Laughing (pg. 201) | |
| Dreams of New Worlds (pg. 203) | |
| Atoms for Peace (pg. 206) | |
| Policies for Technology in China (pg. 209) | |
| Microelectronics (pg. 211) | |
| 11. Technologies for Health, Food, and Basic Needs (pg. 217) | |
| Contrasting Visions of Technology (pg. 217) | |
| Ecological Particularism (pg. 221) | |
| The Green Revolution (pg. 223) | |
| African Agriculture (pg. 226) | |
| Agroforestry in Temperate Regions (pg. 233) | |
| Household-Level Innovation in Rural Africa (pg. 235) | |
| Significance of the African Experience (pg. 238) | |
| 12. Into the Twenty-First Century (pg. 241) | |
| Waves of Innovation (pg. 241) | |
| Twentieth-Century Technologies—Semiconductors and Communication (pg. 244) | |
| Photovoltaic and Other Innovations (pg. 247) | |
| Environmental Limits (pg. 250) | |
| The Twenty-First-Century Industrial Revolution (pg. 258) | |
| Notes (pg. 263) | |
| Preface to the Revised Edition (pg. 263) | |
| Coauthor’s Note (pg. 263) | |
| 1. An Age of Asian Technology, AD 700–1100 (pg. 263) | |
| 2. Complexes and Contrasts in Basic Technology, AD 1100–1260 (pg. 265) | |
| 3. Movements West, 1150–1490 (pg. 266) | |
| 4. Agroecology in the Americas and Asian Trade (pg. 267) | |
| 5. Gunpowder Empires, 1450–1650 (pg. 269) | |
| 6. Printing, Books, and Ideas about Technology, 1550–1750 (pg. 271) | |
| 7. Three Industrial Movements, 1700–1815 (pg. 272) | |
| 8. Guns and Rails (pg. 274) | |
| 9. Railway Empires, 1850–1940 (pg. 275) | |
| 10. Scientific Discoveries and Technical Dreams, 1860–1960 (pg. 277) | |
| 11. Technologies for Health, Food, and Basic Needs (pg. 279) | |
| 12. Into the Twenty-First Century (pg. 282) | |
| Bibliography (pg. 285) | |
| Index (pg. 313) | |
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