Dimensions
128 x 198 x 18mm
The first proper global account of the place of old and new technology in twentieth century history.
This first global account of the history of technology casts aside the usual stories of inventions and focuses instead on what people actually use. It reassesses the relationship of technology and society, using unrecognised examples such as Spanish synthetic petrol, Japanese rickshaws, American gas chambers, Soviet tractors and Turkish battleships.
We do not live in an era of ever increasing change, and the most important technologies of the twenty-first century are often overlooked today. Drawing on political, economic and cultural history, The Shock of the Old exemplified a radical new way of looking at our world.
