Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History

Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another.

• Society and Technological Change
• Society and Technological Change
• Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
• Technology: A World History (New Oxford World History)
• Engineering and the Mind's Eye (The MIT Press)
• A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium (The MIT Press)
• Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism
• That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
• 101 Things About Science Pa
• A Social History of American Technology