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"Peter Lyth, Helmuth Trishler: Globalization, History and Technology: An Introduction" handler om ???
"Bruce Mazlish: Technology and Social Relations: From Patronage to Networks" handler om ???
"Rainer Fremdling: Historical Precedents of Global Markets" handler om ???
"Stephan H. Lindner: Technology and Textiles Globalisation" handler om ???
"Paul Rosen: Production and Culture in the Global Cycle Industry" handler om ???
"Wolf Schäfer: Global History and the Present Time" handler om ???
"W. Bernard Carlson: Taking on the World: Bell, Edison and the Diffusion of the Telephone in the 1870s" handler om ???
"Helge Kragh: Towards a Global Telephone Network: Technological Advances in Long-Distance Telephony" handler om ???
"Richard Coopey: A Passing Technology: The Automated Teller Machine" handler om pengeautomater fra midten af 1960'erne. Kreditkort og debitkort. Banker som finansielle supermarkeder hvor kontanter er en meget lille del af forretningen. Selvbetjeningssupermarkeder med mulighed for udbetaling af kontanter. Og med kortbetalinger, der erstatter kontanter i stor stil.
"Nathalie N. Mitev: The Globalisation of Transport? Computerised Reservation System at American Airlines and French Railways" handler om ???
"Donald MacKenzie: 'Boardwalks across the Tar': Software Engineering and the Problems of Safety and Security" handler om ???
"Andre Millard: Audio Cassette Culture and Globalization" handler om ???
"Contributors" handler om de enkelte forfattere.
"Index" er blot et opslagsregister
Glimrende bog om forskellige teknologier, deres udvikling og nuværende stade.
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The editors of this volume point out that globalization calls for global history--history that treats the planet as a single complex entity. Several of the chapters address the origins of globalization's first wave in the 19th century, focusing on the interrelationship between economics and the spread of three pioneering inventions: the steam engine, the telegraph and the telephone. Others chronicle the late twentieth-century textile and bicycle industries, the development of the ATM machine, railroad modernization in France, major software disasters and the culturally empowering effects of the cassette tape. And three authors make fundamental arguments about the nature of globalization's changes: how the ties binding Europeans have evolved from patronage to connections to networks, how global interconnectedness has eliminated differences in the perception of time, and how the key to understanding the dynamics of globalization lies in the local application of standardized technology.… (more)
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Omslaget viser Prometheus lænket til en klippe men med en pc i nærheden og desværre også en ørn, der hakker i hans indvolde
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
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330.9/04 |