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Most general histories of technology are
Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology
that stretches from the Greeks through the computer. In
this very different book, Arnold Percy takes a global view,
placing the development of technology squarely in a "world
civilization." He portrays the process as a complex
dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture
are adopted to suit another.
Arnold Pacey is a physicist turned historian
whose publications have contributed to the British appropriate-technology
movement. He has written widely on science, technology,
and agriculture. His previous books include The Maze
of Ingenuity and The Culture of Technology.
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