[PDF.10pq] The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900

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 | #229382 in Books |  Edgerton David |  2011-08-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.60 x9.20l,.85 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

 | The Shock of the Old

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Nearly Unreadable Babble|By William Maddox|Reads like a doctoral thesis from a graduate student desperate for approval at a politically correct university. Presents a largely naive view of history while diminishing the accomplishments of innovators.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Different View of 20th Century Te|From Publishers Weekly|A class titled History of Modern Technology 101 would probably focus on electricity, mass production, the automobile and the Internet, but according to British historian Edgerton, it would miss the real history of 20th-century technology.

From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clichéd claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. He challenges us to view the history of technology in terms of what...

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