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Singularity of Western Innovation : The Language Nexus by Leonard Dudley (2017, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN-101137403179

ISBN-139781137403179

eBay Product ID (ePID)238072113

Product Key Features

Book TitleSingularity of Western Innovation : the Language Nexus

Number of PagesXix, 316 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicEconomic History, Sociology / General, Development / Economic Development, General, Modern / General, Technical Writing

IllustratorYes

GenreTechnology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics, History

AuthorLeonard Dudley

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight189 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2017-946893

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal338.9009

Table Of Content1. Introduction.- 2. 1600: The Dynastic Cycle.- 3. Printing.- 4. Literacy.- 5. Language Standardization.- 6. 1700: Financing the Imperial State.- 7. Steam Makes Waves.- 8. Machines to Make Machines.- 9. Cloning the Industrial Revolution.- 10. 1793: A Geopolitical Watershed.- 11. Steamships.- 12. Shell-firing Artillery.- 13. Mass-Produced Firearms.- 14. Conclusion.

SynopsisExplores the connection between language, technology, and empireArgues that standardized language made the Industrial Revolution possibleConnects literacy to the rise of the West in the seventeenth century, 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.

LC Classification NumberHC