History of Technology Volume 29 (History of Technology)

Inkster, Ian (EDT)

Continuum Publishing Corporation（2009/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 232 p.／サイズ 20 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781441136114
• DDC分類 609

Full Description

This book offers a new way of looking at Chinese history through their technological advances. The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

Contents

Ian Inkster, 'Introduction to volume 29'.; Special Issue: Kent Deng and Jerry Liu ed., Chinese Technological History: The Great Divergence.; Deng and Liu, 'Editorial Introduction'.; Patrick K. O'Brien, 'The Needham Question Updated: a Historiographical Survey and Elaboration'.; Jerry C.Y. Liu, 'Cultural Logics for the Regime of Useful Knowledge during the Ming and early Qing China c. 1400-1700'.; Harriet T. Zurndorfer, 'China and Science on the Eve of the 'Great Divergence' 1600-1800: A review of recent revisionist scholarship in Western languages'.; Kent Deng, 'Movers and Shakers of Knowledge in China during the Ming-Qing Period'.; Special Issue: Lissa Roberts and Ian Inkster ed., Mindful Hand.; Lissa Roberts, 'Introduction'.; Alette Fleischer, 'From darkness into light: The transformation of rock crystal into an object of adornment and revelation'.; Chandra Mukerji, 'The Mindful Hands of Peasants: Construction of an Eight-Lock Staircase at Fonseranes, 1678-1679'.; Simon Werrett, 'Enlightenment in Russian Hands: Instruments, Inventions, and Ivan Petrovich Kulibin in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg'.; Lissa Roberts, 'The mindful hand goes to Japan. Dutch-Japanese trade in the second half of the eighteenth century'.; Ian Inkster, 'Conclusions'.