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  • Technology: A World History

    de Daniel R. Headrick ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Invisible Weapon

    Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945

    de Daniel R. Headrick ...
    A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He argues that this technology gave society new options. In times of peace, the telegraph and radio were, as many predicted, instruments of peace; in times of tension, ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Power over Peoples

    Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present

    de Daniel R. Headrick ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. Power over Peoples examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ventured down the ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Humans versus Nature

    A Global Environmental History

    de Daniel R. Headrick ...
    Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment. Humans versus Nature ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • When Information Came of Age

    Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850

    de Daniel R. Headrick ...
    Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and Revolution. When Information Came of Age argues that the key to the present era lies in understanding the ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Technology: A World History

    de Daniel R. Headrick ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Tentacles of Progress

    Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940

    de Daniel R. Headrick ...
    This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the most important technologies--shipping and railways, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and ... Leer más

    $75.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Humans versus Nature

    A Global Environmental History

    de Daniel R. Headrick ...
    Narrado por David Stifel ...

    Completo

    23 hora 44 minutos

    Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment.Humans versus Nature ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014

    de Gwynne Dyer ...
    Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 is a serious contemplation of what it means to engage in major world conflicts, and the price we pay when we do.The First World War was Canada's baptism of fire, or at least the only one that people now remember. (Montrealers in 1776 or Torontonians in 1814 would have taken a different view.) From 1914 to 1918, after a century of peace, Canadians were ... Leer más

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  • Sapiens

    A Brief History of Humankind

    de Yuval Noah Harari ...
    #1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill GatesOfficial U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a landmark work of big history, a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller ... Leer más

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  • Winston Churchill

    A Life

    de John Keegan ...
    Series series Penguin Lives
    One of the greatest historians writing today gives us a defining portrait of the incomparable Winston ChurchillIn his landmark biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian John Keegan offers a very human portrait of one of the twentieth century's enduring symbols of heroic defiance. From Churchill's youth as a poor student to his leadership during World War II, Keegan reveals a man whose ... Leer más

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  • Humans

    A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

    de Tom Phillips ...
    "If Sapiens was a testament to human sophistication, this history of failure cheerfully reminds us that humans are mostly idiots." —Greg Jenner, author of A Million Years in a DayNow an International BestsellerA Toronto Star–Bestselling Book of the YearModern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade—on the evolutionary food ... Leer más

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