Science and Technology in Modern European Life

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"High school to college-level libraries strong in either science and technology or modern European life will find Science and Technology in Modern European Life an excellent history and review of how science and technology affects and changes modern European society today. From urban and rural agriculture and the growth of industrial machines to navigating the world and handling war, chapters provide an excellent historical and social history." - Midwest Book Review "This delightful reading on the social and cultural history of technology, a book in Greenwood's 'Daily Life through History' series, is designed for high school and beginning college audiences. Syon (history, Albright College) assembled these eloquent essays on how Europeans have adjusted to the industrial age over the course of two centuries... Recommended. Lower- division undergraduates and general readers." - Choice "This collection of essays tracks the trajectories of sciences that moved economies and societies from the rural to the urban and thence to the global includes such topics as urban architecture and culture, transportation from the personal to the collective and back to the personal, navigation of the seas and the heavens, communication, the ever-present specters of war, energy, domestic and workplace technology, and the rising appreciation of a global experience of advances and improvements. This is a positive assessment of what we have done so far, and also a warning that some advancement, particularly in the case of war, is not an improvement." - SciTech Book News "This book (and possibly the rest of the series) might well be of interest to the general public and advanced high school students as well as non-science-oriented undergraduates. . ." - ARBA "The book is ideal for advanced placement (AP) high school classes. It offers a quick and relatively thorough over view of the technological advances of the past two centuries. Its structure and content will assist students reviewing for the exam. Teachers will find it useful in preparing an AP class curriculum: its social history approach to technology gives it a contemporary mood. Students preparing for the exam will find it helpful because it is concise and focused and offers social history in a narrative that can be transferred directly into free response answer style." - Catholic Library World