The Singularity of Western Innovation: The Language Nexus

ISBN-13: 9781137403179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str.

Leonard Dudley

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Part I

2. 1600: The Dynastic Cycle

3. Printing

4. Literacy

5. Language Standardization

Part II

6. 1700: Financing the Imperial State

7. Steam Makes Waves

8. Machines to Make Machines

9. Cloning the Industrial Revolution

Part III

10. 1793: A Geopolitical Watershed

11. Steamships

12. Shell-firing Artillery

13. Mass-Produced Firearms

14. Conclusion

O autorze

Leonard Dudley is Honorary Professor at the Université de Montréal, Canada. He received his PhD in economics from Yale University, USA, and his principal research interest is technological change.