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- Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century, Revised and Expanded (inbunden, eng)

Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century, Revised and Expanded (inbunden, eng)
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It investigates the birth of an expansive society driven by the synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation. Key inventions from this era include dynamite, the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs in the 1870s, followed by electricity-generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, and cars in the 1880s.
The period of extraordinary discovery continues into the early 20th century with the advent of airplanes, tractors, radio signals, and plastics. Smil systematically examines four fundamental classes of innovations: the formation and standardization of electric systems, the rapid adoption of internal combustion engines, the surge in chemical syntheses and material substitutions, and the dawn of the information age.
This interdisciplinary account highlights the epochal consequences of these advancements, leading to high-energy societies engaged in mass production aimed at improving living standards.Transforming the Twentieth Century investigates how these technical advances shaped the decades that followed.
It examines how the 20th century differed from the preceding 100 years due to unprecedented combinations of technical progress. Smil discusses the remarkable pace and ambition of 20th-century advancements, which elevated industrial production to new heights and tackled previously insurmountable challenges.
He addresses the themes of electricity, engines, materials, and information techniques, and critically examines the contradictory consequences of technological progress--including liberating simplicity versus overwhelming complexity, unprecedented affluence versus economic disparities, and increased security versus new fears.
This new edition contains numerous updates to the original books and features a new preface and a final chapter examining key themes in light of major 21st-century events and publications. Now in a single volume, these classic texts remain central to Smil''s acclaimed oeuvre, and their lessons are perennially fascinating.
| Format | Inbunden |
| Omfång | 744 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2025-05-21 |
| ISBN | 9780197784648 |
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Böcker
- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 744
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2025-05-21
- ISBN 9780197784648
- Förlag Oxford University Press Inc
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