Title & Author:

Oxford handbook of engineering and technology in the Classical world / edited by John Peter Oleson.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Description:

xviii, 865 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: Ancient written sources for engineering and technology -- Chapter 2: Representations of technical processes -- Ch. 3: Historiography and theoretical approaches -- Primary, extractive technologies -- Ch. 4: Mining and metallurgy -- Ch. 5: Quarrying and stoneworking -- Ch. 6: Sources of energy and exploitation of power -- Ch. 7: Greek and Roman agriculture -- Ch. 8: Animal husbandry, hunting, and fishing and fish production -- Engineering and complex machines -- Ch. 9: Greek engineering and construction -- Ch. 10: Roman engineering and construction -- Ch. 11: Hydraulic engineering and water supply -- Ch. 12: Tunnels and canals -- Ch. 13: Machines in Greek and Roman technology -- Secondary processes and manufacturing -- Ch. 14: Food processing and preparation -- Ch. 15: Large-scale manufacturing, standardization, and trade -- Ch. 16: Metalworking and tools -- Ch. 17: Woodworking -- Ch. 18: Textile production -- Ch. 19: Tanning and leather -- Ch. 20 Ceramic production -- Ch. 21: Glass production -- technologies of movement and transport -- Ch. 22: Land transport, Part 1: Roads and bridges -- Ch. 23: Land transport, Part 2: Riding, harnesses, and vehicles -- Ch. 24: Sea transport, Part 1: Ships and navigation -- Ch. 25: Sea transport, Part 2: Harbors -- Technologies of death -- Ch. 26: Greek warfare and fortification -- Ch. 27: Roman warfare and fortification -- Technologies of the mind -- Ch. 28: Information technologies: Writing, book production, and the role of literacy -- Ch. 29: Timekeeping -- Ch. 30: Technologies of calculation -- Part 1: Weights and measures -- Part 2: Coinage -- Part 3: Practical mathematics -- Ch. 31: Gadgets and scientific instruments -- Ch. 32: Inventors, invention and attitudes toward innovation -- Ancient technologies in the modern world -- Ch. 33: Expanding ethnoarchaeology historical evidence and model-building in the study of technological change.
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Eugene S. Ferguson Prize (Society for the History of Technology), 2009
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The subject matter of the book is the technological framework of the Greek and Roman cultures from ca. 800 B.C. through ca. A.D. 500 in the circum-Mediterranean world and Northern Europe. Each chapter discusses a technology or family of technologies from an analytical rather than descriptive point of view, providing a critical summation of our present knowledge of the Greek and Roman accomplishments in the technology concerned and the evolution of their technical capabilities over the chronological period. Each presentation reviews the issues and recent contributions, and defines the capacities and accomplishments of the technology in the context of the society that used it, the available "technological shelf," and the resources consumed. These studies introduce and synthesize the results of excavation or specialized studies. The chapters are organized in sections progressing from sources (written and representational) to primary (e.g., mining, metallurgy, agriculture) and secondary (e.g., woodworking, glass production, food preparation, textile production and leather-working) production, to technologies of social organization and interaction (e.g., roads, bridges, ships, harbors, warfare and fortification), and finally to studies of general social issues (e.g., writing, timekeeping, measurement, scientific instruments, attitudes toward technology and innovation) and the relevance of ethnographic methods to the study of classical technology.--From publisher description.

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ISBN:

9780195187311
0195187318
9780199734856 (pbk.)
0199734852 (pbk.)

Subject:

Technology Rome History Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Technology Greece History Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Engineering Rome History Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Engineering Greece History Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Technologie Rome Histoire Guides, manuels, etc.
Technologie Grèce Histoire Guides, manuels, etc.
Ingénierie Rome Histoire Guides, manuels, etc.
Ingénierie Grèce Histoire Guides, manuels, etc.
Technology Rome History.
Technology Greece History.
Engineering Rome History.
Engineering Greece History.
Technology.
Engineering.
Antike
Ingenieurwissenschaften
Technik
Technologie
Klassieke oudheid.
Techniek.
Teknik historia Romerska riket handböcker, manualer, etc.
Teknik historia Grekland antiken handböcker, manualer, etc.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
Griechenland
Römisches Reich
Griekenland.
Romeinse rijk.

Form/genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Handbooks and manuals.
History.

Added entries:

Oleson, John Peter, editor.
Oleson, John Peter
Oxford handbooks.

Handbook of engineering and technology in the Classical world

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 259337
Call No.: T16 .O94 2008
Status: Available