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Technics and Civilization

by Lewis Mumford · 1934

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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

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philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy).

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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technologytechnologyMore like thisLess of thisartartMore like thisLess of thisAmerican historyAmerican historyMore like thisLess of thismediamediaMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 544 pages

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