![]() ![]() Book excerpt: 'First published in Great Britain by Profile Books, Ltd., 2007'-T.p. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. A provocative history, The Shock of the Old provides an entirely new way of looking historically at the relationship between invention and innovation. Download or read book The Shock of the Old written by David Edgerton and published by Oxford University Press. The shock of the old : technology and global history since 1900 / David Edgerton. ![]() Edgerton reassesses the significance of such acclaimed inventions as the Pill and information technology, and underscores the continued importance of unheralded technology, debunking many notions about the implications of the information age. Author: Edgerton, David Format: Book xviii, 270 p. ![]() Indeed, many highly touted technologies, from the V-2 rocket to the Concorde jet, have been costly failures, while many mundane discoveries, like corrugated iron, become hugely important around the world. He challenges us to view the history of technology in terms of what everyday people have actually used-and continue to use-rather than just sophisticated inventions. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. Germany and the Second World War Volume IX/II. The Army in Cromwellian England, 1649-1660. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clich d claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. David Edgertons bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country. ![]()
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