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.
| Author | Arnold Pacey |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
| Release Date | 1991-07-01 |
| ISBN | 9780262660723 |
| Pages | 258 pages |
| Rating | 4/5 (25 users) |
