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Titre(s) : Global history of techniques [Texte imprimé] : (nineteenth to twenty-first centuries) / edited by Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez and Jérôme Lamy
Publication : Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, copyright 2024
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (781 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm
Collection : Global Matters, ISSN 2736-7452 ; Volume 9
Lien à la collection : Global matters (Turnhout. Print)
Note(s) : "Culture matérielles, histoire des techniques et circulation globale des savoirs ;
Techne, knowledge, technique, and material culture"--Page de collection. - Contient les biographies des contributeurs. - Notes bibliogr.
"It is impossible to understand societies without looking at their technological underpinnings.
Technology constitutes the very fabric of societies' political, economic, cultural,
and everyday realities. Building on recent historiography, this book offers the first
overview of the global history of contemporary technology. Gathering more than fifty
specialists of the history of technology, the collection of essays presents an overview
of technological evolutions on a global scale. The book challenges both teleological
approaches on progress and eurocentric perspectives. It explores the complex socio-economic
implications of ‘techniques' (and not simply technology) as well as the systems of
representation and power structures that led to the emergence of today's world. The
purpose of the collected essays is to offer a new history of technology. In this perspective,
a central question concerns the very category of the history of technology, i.e. the
term ‘technology' itself. Refusing both the limitations of ‘technology' and of ‘useful
knowledge', the book stresses the necessity to study technology as embodying human
activity as a whole. In that sense, history of technology, envisioned as techniques
rather than purely technologies, is intrinsically linked to anthropology and ethnology.
This book is divided into three sections. The first section opens with a world tour
of techniques, restoring the complexity of regional historiographies and of the meanings
given to technological activities in different societies. The second part focuses
on sectors of activity, processes, and products with a strong emphasis on means of
production and communication, the exploitation of natural resources, major technological
systems, infrastructures and networks. The final section provides access to major
cross-related issues. It pays particular attention to the role played by technology/techniques
in the process of globalization, particularly through colonization, imperialism, and
the development of large technological systems."
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Carnino, Guillaume. Directeur de publication
Pérez, Liliane. Directeur de publication
Lamy, Jérôme (1976-....). Directeur de publication
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Global history of techniques (19th to 21st centuries)
Sujet(s) : Technique -- Histoire
Histoire sociale
Innovation -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey : 609 (23e éd.) = Technologie (sciences appliquées) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9782503591513. - ISBN 2503591515 (rel.). - ISBN 9782503600543 (erroné)
EAN 9782503591513
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47443330f
Notice n° :
FRBNF47443330
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