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Leonardo to the Internet
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Leonardo
TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE
FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT
to the Internet
THOMAS J. MISA
Utgitt 2004
324 sider
HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
A JOHNS HOPKINS PAPERBACK
THE IMAGE OF THE LONE INVENTOR transforming society from the outside has a strong hold on the public's imagination. In reality, though, technologies are products of ongoing social and cultural processes. In Leonardo to the Internet, historian Thom- as J. Misa provides a sweeping comparative history of the interrelationship between technology and society since the Renaissance, revealing how technological innovations have been shaped by the cultures in which they arose and how such technologies have, in turn, shaped these cultures. From the careers and contributions of Renaissance court inventors Johann Gutenberg and Leonardo da Vinci to beer brewing in industrial Lon- don to the telecommunication revolution of the late twentieth century, Misa uses care- fully chosen and engagingly told case studies to develop his thesis.
Over eight thematic chapters, Misa provides detailed portraits of the inventors and users of technologies. Beginning his narrative at the dawn of the "modern" era, Misa surveys the intersections of technology, politics, and culture in the Renaissance court system of Western Europe; the role of technology in Holland's commercial expansion; the diverse "paths" to and through Britain's industrial revolution; the links among tech- nology, imperialism, and trade in the nineteenth century; and the application of scien- tific discoveries in chemistry and physics to industry in Germany and the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Misa then examines the introduction of mass- produced consumer goods and their impact on daily life and modernist sensibilities, the rise of the military-industrial complex during World War II, the technological in- novations generated by the command-and-control economies of the Cold War, and the emergence of a technology-oriented global culture since the 1970s. The work concludes with a provocative essay laying out the technological choices we face today and consid- ering their impact on the type of society we wish for the future.
A masterful analysis of the ways in which technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet encourages students and general readers alike to think both more widely and more deeply about the invention, develop- ment, transfer, and adaptation of technologies within Western civilization.
THOMAS J. MISA is an associate professor of history at the Illinois Institute of Tech- nology in Chicago. His books include Managing Technology in Society, Modernity and Technology, and A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925, the last of which, also available from Johns Hopkins, was awarded the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.
JOHNS HOPKINS STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Baltimore and London
www.press.jhu.edu
ISBN 0-8018-7809-8
90000
9 780801 878091
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