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A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium.

Publication: The Review of Policy Research
Publication Date: 01-NOV-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. xii + 588 pages. ISBN 9780262062626, $39.95 cloth. Robert Friedel. 2007.

Robert Friedel's book is an imaginative and wide-ranging survey of the development of technology in the Western world over the last thousand years. The primary motivation for undertaking such a daunting task is put forward in the very first pages of the book: previous surveys of this kind--possibly the two major immediate predecessors of Friedel are Donald Cardwell's Fontana History of Technology (1994) and Joel Mokyr's The Lever of Riches (1990)--are at least one or two decades old and, for this reason, the times are probably ripe for a new synthesis, which will incorporate the findings of the most recent scholarship in the field of history of technology. On this ground, the book succeeds. Friedel gives us an effective synthesis of the...

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