(H/B) HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY (VOLUME 25)

Παρουσίαση

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

'Introduction to volume 29'. Ian Inkster
Special Issue: Chinese Technological History: The Great Divergence. Kent Deng Jerry Liu
'Editorial Introduction'. Deng Liu
'The Needham Question Updated: a Historiographical Survey and Elaboration' Patrick K. O'Brien
'Cultural Logics for the Regime of Useful Knowledge during the Ming and early Qing China c. 1400-1700' Jerry C.Y. Liu
'China and Science on the Eve of the 'Great Divergence' 1600-1800: A review of recent revisionist scholarship in Western languages' Harriet T. Zurndorfer
'Movers and Shakers of Knowledge in China during the Ming-Qing Period' Kent Deng
Special Issue: Mindful Hand. Lissa Roberts Ian Inkster
Introduction Lissa Roberts
'From darkness into light: The transformation of rock crystal into an object of adornment and revelation'. Alette Fleischer
'The Mindful Hands of Peasants: Construction of an Eight-Lock Staircase at Fonseranes, 1678-1679' Chandra Mukerji
'Enlightenment in Russian Hands: Instruments, Inventions, and Ivan Petrovich Kulibin in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg' Simon Werrett
'The mindful hand goes to Japan. Dutch-Japanese trade in the second half of the eighteenth century' Lissa Roberts
'Conclusions' Ian Inkster