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100			_aMumford, Lewis
245			_aTechnics and civilization _cby Lewis Mumford
260			_aLondon : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c©2010
300			_axxvii, 495 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_t1. Cultural preparation
505			_t2. Agents of mechanization
505			_t3. The eotechnic phase
505			_t4. The Paleotechnic phase
505			_t5. The Neotechnic phase
505			_t6. Compensations and reversions
505			_t7. Assimilation of the machine
505			_t8. Orientation
520			_a'Technics and Civilization' first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 - before television, the personal computer, and the Internet. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, 'Technics and Civilization' was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years - and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. Collapse summary
650			_aIndustrial arts -- History
650			_aTechnology and civilization
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