Paths of Fire : : An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology / / Robert M. Adams.
Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to und...
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Adams, Robert M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Paths of Fire : An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology / Robert M. Adams. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012] ©1997 1 online resource (360 p.) : 21 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. Paths of Fire: The Idea of Technological Change -- 2. The Useful Arts in Western Antiquity -- 3. Technology and the New European Society -- 4. England as the Workshop of the World -- 5. Atlantic Crossing: The American System Emerges -- 6. The United States Succeeds to Industrial Leadership -- 7. The Competitive Global System -- 8. New Paths: Technological Change in a Borderless World -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. Repeatedly shifting in direction, this path has been shaped by a host of interacting social, cultural, and scientific forces rather than any deterministic logic. Thus future technological developments, Adams maintains, are predictable only over the very short term.Adams's account highlights Britain and the United States from early modern times onward. Locating the roots of the Industrial Revolution in British economic and social institutions, he goes on to consider the new forms of enterprise in which it was embodied and its loss of momentum in the later nineteenth century. He then turns to the early United States, whose path toward industrialization initially involved considerable "technology transfer" from Britain. Propelled by the advent of mass production, world industrial leadership passed to the United States around the end of the nineteenth century. Government-supported research and development, guided partly by military interests, helped secure this leadership.Today, as Adams shows, we find ourselves in a profoundly changed era. The United States has led the way to a strikingly new multinational pattern of opportunity and risk, where technological primacy can no longer be credited to any single nation. This recent trend places even more responsibility on the state to establish policies that will keep markets open for its companies and make its industries more competitive. Adams concludes with an argument for active government support of science and technology research that should be read by anyone interested in America's ability to compete globally. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691026343 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822225 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400822225 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400822225.jpg |
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