The Singularity of Western Innovation
The Language Nexus
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around...
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This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three Western states - Britain, France, and the United states. This book argues that Western Europe and its offshoots were the only Eurasian societies able to apply typography cheaply to their writing systems. The emergence in the West of large networks of people able to communicate in standardized languages made possible the breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution. Military byproducts of three "macro-innovations"- the steam engine, machine tools, and interchangeable parts - then constituted the West's toolbox for empire. The book will appeal to readers seeking to explain how the West attained its unprecedented advance over Asia in the nineteenth century, and why this lead has since proved temporary.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Singularity of Western Innovation “
1. Introduction Part I 2. 1600: The Dynastic Cycle 3. Printing 4. Literacy 5. Language StandardizationPart II6. 1700: Financing the Imperial State7. Steam Makes Waves8. Machines to Make Machines9. Cloning the Industrial RevolutionPart III10. 1793: A Geopolitical Watershed 11. Steamships12. Shell-firing Artillery13. Mass-Produced Firearms14. ConclusionAutoren-Porträt von Leonard Dudley
Leonard Dudley is Honorary Professor at the Université de Montréal, Canada. He received his PhD in economics from Yale University, USA, and his principal research interest is technological change.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Leonard Dudley
- 2017, 1st ed., 316 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Masse: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137403179
- ISBN-13: 9781137403179
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2017
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Englisch
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