Science and Technology in Modern European Life

Subjects:

• Science » Science (General)
• History » European History -- Modern/20th Century

Reviews:

• "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 1/1/2009
• "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 3/1/2009
• "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 3/1/2009
• "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 4/1/2009

Table of Contents:

• Dedication
  Preface
  Chronology
  Introduction: Revolutions
  Chapter 1 Agriculture: From Farm to Town
  Chapter 2 Building the City and its Urban Culture
  Chapter 3 The Rail in All its Expressions
  Chapter 4 Sell Your Horse and Buy a Car
  Chapter 5 Navigating the Earth and Heavenly Seas
  Chapter 6 Communicating
  Chapter 7 The Specter of War
  Chapter 8 Energy
  Chapter 9 Technology in the Home and the Office
  Chapter 10 Medical Awareness
  Chapter 11 Scientific Challenges
  Chapter 12 Conclusion: A Global Experience?
  Bibliography

PDF Catalogs:
Greenwood Spring Reference 2008.pdf	Greenwood History Spring 2008.pdf
Greenwood School and Public Library Reference Spring 2008.pdf	Greenwood School and Public Library Reference 2009.pdf