Technology and Society: A World History explores the creative power of humanity from the age of stone tools to the digital revolution. It introduces technology as a series of systems that allowed us to solve real-world problems and create a global civilization. The history of technology is also the history of the intellectual and cultural place of our tools and devices. With a ...(展开全部)

Communication in History's outstanding selection of readings from classic and contemporary sources gives an extensive overview of the most important ideas in the field. Encompassing topics as wide-ranging as the role of printing in the rise of the modern state and the role of the Internet in the Information Age, this anthology reveals how media have been influential bot...(展开全部)

Science, Technology and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the emergent field of science, technology, and society (STS) studies and its implications for today’s culture and society. Discusses current STS topics, research tools, and theories Tackles some of the most urgent issues in current STS studies, including power and culture, race, gender, co...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·E·麦克莱伦第三(1946一)，1975年获普林斯顿大学博士学位，现为美国史蒂文斯理工学院科学与艺术学院副院长、科学史教授。著有《科学重组：18世纪的科学学会》、《殖民主义与科学：旧王朝时代的圣多曼格》等。论著《专家控制：巴黎皇家科学院的出版委员会(1700—1793)》获美国哲学会颁发的2003年度刘易斯奖。 哈罗德·多恩(1928一)，1970年获普林斯顿大学博士学位，现为美国史蒂文斯理工学院人文与社会科学系科学技术史名誉教授。著有《科学地理学》等。

Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook may be the single most influential study of the historical relationship between science and technology ever published. Tracing this relationship from the dawn of civilization through the twentieth century, James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn argue that technology as "applied science" emerged relatively recently, as industr...(展开全部)

Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook may be the single most influential study of the historical relationship between science and technology ever published. Tracing this relationship from the dawn of civilization through the twentieth century, James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn argue that technology as "applied science" emerged relatively recently, as industr...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·E·麦克莱伦第三(1946一)，1975年获普林斯顿大学博士学位，现为美国史蒂文斯理工学院科学与艺术学院副院长、科学史教授。著有《科学重组：18世纪的科学学会》、《殖民主义与科学：旧王朝时代的圣多曼格》等。论著《专家控制：巴黎皇家科学院的出版委员会(1700—1793)》获美国哲学会颁发的2003年度刘易斯奖。 哈罗德·多恩(1928一)，1970年获普林斯顿大学博士学位，现为美国史蒂文斯理工学院人文与社会科学系科学技术史名誉教授。著有《科学地理学》等。

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged as one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consum...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged as one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consum...(展开全部)

Designed for use at the college level as a textbook for military history courses or supplemental reading for world history courses, this text offers an introduction and original synthesis of global military history. Each chapter traces key developments in military institutions and practices set in three crucial contexts: politics and institutions; social structures and economic...(展开全部)