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Medieval Technology and Social Change

Lynn White Jr.

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Not sure if this is helpful, but a friend fed this conversation through ChatGPT and had it summarize for easier reading: -The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy -Bigger by Marc Levinson -The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos -Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World by Erik Larson -Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard -White -The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War by William Manchester -Edison by Edmund Morris -Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow -The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts -Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler -The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage -The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick -Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael S. Malone…
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Medieval Technology and Social Change - Medieval Technology and Social Change https://a.co/d/8RuGXQM Not a book, but the old Connections series is really wonderful for broad overviews along a narrow band. I wish there were more things that took a similar approach - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_%28British_TV_series%29)