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Technics and Civilization
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Technics and Civilization (1934) (edit title/settings)

by Lewis Mumford (Author) (edit contributors)

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This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have... read more

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During the last century the automatic or semi-automatic machine has come to occupy a large place in our daily routine; and we have tended to attribute to the physical instrument itself the whole complex of habits and methods that created it and accompanied

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Publication Date: 1934
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