The singularity of western innovation : the language nexus / Leonard Dudley.
2017
P368
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Title
The singularity of western innovation : the language nexus / Leonard Dudley.
Author
Dudley, Leonard, 1943-
ISBN
9781137398222 (electronic book)
1137398221 (electronic book)
1137403179
9781137403179
1137398221 (electronic book)
1137403179
9781137403179
Publication Details
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language
English
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P368
Dewey Decimal Classification
410
Summary
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. 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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