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书籍 288页 2020 Oxford University Press
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USD 26.00 2020-02-20 … 2020-05-22 … 26
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科学史,sts,物理學,Edgerton_David,
作者
David Edgerton      ISBN:9780195322835    原作名/别名:《》
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The Shock of the Old摘要

From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in cliched claims about technology and history, writes David Edgerton. Now, in The Shock of the Old, 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. Our sense of technological time--and our thinking about technology and production, nationalism, war, and more besides--will all be changed, and to a surprising degree. Modern technology, writes Edgerton, is not just a matter of electricity, mass production, aerospace, nuclear power, and the internet. It also involves the rickshaw, the horse, corrugated iron, cement, DDT, small arms, flat-pack furniture and the refrigerator. The Shock of the Old challenges us to view the history of technology in terms of what everyday people have actually used--and continue to use around the world--rather than just what was invented. The reader discovers that many highly touted technologies--from the V-2 rocket to the Concorde jet--have been costly failures. On the other hand, corrugated iron emerges as hugely important, a truly global technology. Its cheapness, lightness, ease of use and long life made it a ubiquitous material in the poor world in a way it never had been in the rich world. Edgerton reassesses the significance of such acclaimed inventions as the Pill and IT, and underscores the continued importance of unheralded technology, debunking the idea that we live in an era of ever-increasing invention and casting doubt upon the many naive assertions about "the information age." A provocative history in the mold of Simon Schama, David S. Landes, and Eric Hobsbawm, The Shock of the Old provides an entirely new way of looking historically at the relationship between technology and society as well as invention and innovation themselves.

作者简介

作者 大卫·艾杰顿 (David Edgerton )

英国权威历史学家,于帝国理工学院创办科学、技术与医学史中心并担任主任及汉斯·劳辛讲席教授(Hans Rausing Professor),后随该中心一同转至伦敦国王学院,著有《战争之国:1920—1970的不列颠》《老科技的全球史》等。

译者 李尚仁

帝国理工学院科学、技术与医学史中心博士,台湾“中研院”历史语言研究所研究员,著有《帝国的医师》,译有《老科技的全球史》《欧洲医疗五百年》《科伦医师吐真言:医学争议教我们的二三事》等。

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