Adams Paths of Fire

An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2222-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Robert McC. Adams is a former Provost of the University of Chicago and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. Currently an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, he is also a Fellow (1995-96) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His many books and articles have focused on urban and agricultural development over the past six millennia in the Near East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Robert McC.

Adams, Robert M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Tables, pg. ix
Preface, pg. xi
2. The Useful Arts in Western Antiquity, pg. 36
3. Technology and the New European Society, pg. 69
4. England as the Workshop of the World, pg. 104
5. Atlantic Crossing: The American System Emerges, pg. 138
6. The United States Succeeds to Industrial Leadership, pg. 173
7. The Competitive Global System, pg. 212
8. New Paths: Technological Change in a Borderless World, pg. 253
Notes, pg. 279
References Cited, pg. 301
Index, pg. 327

Über Autor(innen)

Robert McC. Adams is a former Provost of the University of Chicago and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. Currently an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, he is also a Fellow (1995-96) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His many books and articles have focused on urban and agricultural development over the past six millennia in the Near East.