A Culture of Improvement - Table of Contents

May 2007
8 x 9, 600 pp., 117 illus.
$42.95/£31.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-06262-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-06262-6

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A Culture of Improvement
Technology and the Western Millennium
Robert Friedel

	Preface Sample Chapter - Download PDF (32 KB)	vii

1	Technology and Improvement Sample Chapter - Download PDF (66 KB)	1

2	Plows and Horse	13

3	Power	31

4	Buildings for God and Man	49

5	Transforming Matter	71

6	Light and Time	91

7	Types of Change	113

8	Earth, Fire, Water, and Air	129

9	Improving Knowledge	149

10	Improvers and Engineers	171

11	Raising Fire	191

12	Fabrics of Change	211

13	Artisans, Philosophes, and Entrepreneurs	235

14	Airs and Lightning	255

15	Mobility	275

16	Messages	295

17	Engineering Emerges	319

18	Stuff, Reality, and Dreams	341

19	The Improvement of Violence	363

20	Learning	385

21	Dynamics	401

22	Land and Life	429

23	Scale	449

24	The Corruption of Improvement	479

25	Networks	503

26	Improvement's End	527

	Notes	545

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (96 KB)	569

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