adams robert mccormick (6 Ergebnisse)

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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1965. First edition. In-4, xvi & 187 pages. Original cloth with dust-jacket, the jacket is rubbed, the book itself is a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Mesopotamia.

Zustand: BUONO USATO. Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis INGLESE Fascicolo No. 5, pubblicato il 31 maggio del 1941, del Volume XXX della collana Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis. Fascicolo degli anni '40 del '900 in buono stato, coperta in cartoncino, su piatto anteriore catalogazione bibliotecaria manoscritta, tracce di fioritura, pochi segni del tempo, tagli appena ambrati, cerniera stretta, pagine in buono stato, ultima poco ambrata. Presenta timbro ex biblioteca su frontespizio e su excipit, XIII tavole con illustrazioni in b. e n. Numero Pagine 71, numerazione delle pagine in sequenza.

Trans. Acad. Sc. St.Louis, 30/ 5. - St. Louis, Issued May 31, 1941, 8°, pp.151-221, 13 Abb., orig. Broschur; feines Expl. First Edition!

orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvi,332 pp. "Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here, Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. Repeatedly shifting in direction, this path has been shaped by a host of interacting social, cultural, and scientific forces rather than any deterministic logic. Thus future technological developments, Adams maintains, are predictable only over the very short term. Adams' account highlights Britain and the United States from early modern times onward. Locating the roots of the Industrial Revolution in British economic and social institutions, he goes on to consider the new forms of enterprise in which it was embodied and its loss of momentum in the later nineteenth century. He then turns to the early United States, whose path toward industrialization initially involved considerable "technology transfer" from Britain. Propelled by the advent of mass production, world industrial leadership passed to the United States around the end of the nineteenth Minor rubbing. Small bump to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.