History of Technology Volume 34, Ian Inkster

Автор: Oleson, John
Название: Oxford handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world
ISBN: 0199734852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199734856
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to the topics of engineering and technology. This volume highlights both the accomplishments of the ancient societies and the remaining research problems, and stimulates further progress in the history of ancient technology.

Автор: Mavhunga Clapperton Chakanetsa
Название: What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?
ISBN: 0262533901 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262533904
Издательство: MIT Press
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Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of "technology transfer" from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge.

In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of "technology transfer" from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge. Their contributions focus on African ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic deployment of both endogenous and inbound things represents an African-centered notion of STI. "Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere," observes Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, the volume's editor. Western, colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable.

The contributors discuss topics that include the trivialization of indigenous knowledge under colonialism; the creative labor of chimurenga, the transformation of everyday surroundings into military infrastructure; the role of enslaved Africans in America as innovators and synthesizers; the African ethos of "fixing"; the constitutive appropriation that makes mobile technologies African; and an African innovation strategy that builds on domestic capacities. The contributions describe an Africa that is creative, technological, and scientific, showing that African STI is the latest iteration of a long process of accumulative, multicultural knowledge production.

Contributors
Geri Augusto, Shadreck Chirikure, Chux Daniels, Ron Eglash, Ellen Foster, Garrick E. Louis, D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Neda Nazemi, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Katrien Pype, Scott Remer

Автор: Coopey, Richard
Название: Information Technology Policy
ISBN: 0199241058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199241057
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Information Technology has become a key factor in industry and society in the postwar world and continues to evolve, re-shaping the local and global economy and reorienting comparative and competitive advantages. The production of IT has itself changed and shifted through a number of generations. Government policy towards IT has taken different directions at different times in different countries. The book brings together a series of country-based studies that chart the growth and effectiveness of information technology policy.

Автор: Basalla, George
Название: Evolution of technology
ISBN: 0521296811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521296816
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past.

Автор: Selin
Название: Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures V1
ISBN: 9400777469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400777460
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Fully revised and expanded in a third edition boasting hundreds of new entries, this Springer encyclopedia offers exceptional scientific and geographical scope, with detailed articles on non-Western achievements in science, technology, and healthcare.