Techniques and Human Development The Myth of the Machines

Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. "It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of knowledge and empathetic spirit" (Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times). Index; photographs.Mumford, Lewis is the author of 'Techniques and Human Development The Myth of the Machines', published 1971 under ISBN 9780156623414 and ISBN 0156623412.