Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Shock Of The OldCondition: NewEAN: 9781788163088ISBN: 9781788163088Edition: MainPublisher: Profile Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/04/2019Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 128mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 200gAuthor: David EdgertonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Technology and Global History since 1900ISBN-10: 1788163087Description: 'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time. Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. I Letters exist alongside emails and outlasted telegrams; we still make physical books and magazines despite the rise of the Internet - a belated rise considering that the technologies that made it possible was invented in 1965, and bookshops thrive despite Amazon. More horses were used in the Second World War than any other war in history and propeller planes continue to take off from the same runways as jets. Shock of the Old forces us to reassess the significance of old inventions such as corrugated iron and sewing machines and rethink the relative importance we place on the invention of something new, its application, and its widespread adoption. It challenges the idea that we live in an era of ever increasing change and, interweaving political, economic and cultural history, teaches us to think critically about technology.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Technology & EngineeringRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Shock Of The Old
Publication Name: The Shock Of The Old
Title: The Shock Of The Old
EAN: 9781788163088
ISBN: 9781788163088
Edition: Main
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 04/04/2019
Release Year: 2019
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 128mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 200g
Author: David Edgerton
Language: English
Subtitle: Technology and Global History since 1900
ISBN-10: 1788163087
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Technology & Engineering
