Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990, author.

Technics and civilization / by Lewis Mumford.

New York [New York] : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]
©1934

xi, 495 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations ; 25 cm

(A Harbinger book.)

'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.

Technology and civilization.
Industrial arts History.
Civilization.
Technology history
Science history
Technologie et civilisation.
Métiers Histoire.
Civilisation.
civilization.
Industrial arts
Maatschappij.
Techniek.
Science and civilization.
ECONOMIC PLANNING.
Social conditions History.
cultuur
culture
engineering
industrie
industry
technologie
technology
beschaving
Cultural Sociology
Cultuursociologie

History

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