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000798131 1001_ $$aDudley, Leonard,$$d1943-
000798131 24514 $$aThe singularity of western innovation :$$bthe language nexus /$$cLeonard Dudley.
000798131 260__ $$aNew York, NY :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2017.
000798131 300__ $$a1 online resource.
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000798131 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia
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000798131 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000798131 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000798131 520__ $$aThis book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three Western states - Britain, France, and the United states.  This book argues that Western Europe and its offshoots were the only Eurasian societies able to apply typography cheaply to their writing systems.  The emergence in the West of large networks of people able to communicate in standardized languages made possible the breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution. Military byproducts of three "macro-innovations"- the steam engine, machine tools, and interchangeable parts - then constituted the West's toolbox for empire. The book will appeal to readers seeking to explain how the West attained its unprecedented advance over Asia in the nineteenth century, and why this lead has since proved temporary.
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000798131 650_0 $$aStandard language.
000798131 650_0 $$aIndustrial revolution.
000798131 650_0 $$aCivilization, Western$$xTechnological innovations.
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