" ... Examines the correlation between technological innovation and social change and shows how this transformative relationship helps us to understand and perhaps define modernity"--Page 4 of cover.
Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the Internet in the twenty-first century. The author, a historian and electrical engineer, offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along…
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Examines the life of one of the most fascinating and debated figures in modern Brazil, Candido Rondon, by melding traditional and new research approaches into an informal and clear narrative style of history. It brings to the English-speaking academic public a welcome deconstruc…
Examines the life of one of the most fascinating and debated figures in modern Brazil, Candido Rondon, by melding traditional and new research approaches into an informal and clear narrative style of history. It brings to the English-speaking academic public a welcome deconstruc…
Examines the life of one of the most fascinating and debated figures in modern Brazil, Candido Rondon, by melding traditional and new research approaches into an informal and clear narrative style of history. It brings to the English-speaking academic public a welcome deconstruc…