Download or read book Les Deux R volutions industrielles du XXe si cle written by François Caron and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis le XVIIIe siècle, l'Occident vit au rythme des avancées technologiques : mécanisation, industrialisation et révolution informatique. Mais c'est à partir des années 1950 que ces progrès techniques finirent vraiment par engendrer une nouvelle société, celle de la consommation de masse. Pour comprendre cet extraordinaire essor des niveaux de vie, François Caron a non seulement mobilisé les instruments fournis par l'histoire des techniques et par l'économie de l'innovation, mais aussi replacé ces révolutions industrielles dans leurs contextes tout en analysant les relations d'interdépendance entre l'innovation et la demande sociale, entre l'innovation et la recherche institutionnalisée. François Caron dresse un portrait saisissant du siècle qui s'achève sur une recomposition à peu près totale des logiques économiques et sociales, provoquant une situation de crise par laquelle, une nouvelle fois, se repose la question de la finalité de la science et de la technologie.
Download or read book Les deux r volutions industrielles du XXe si cle written by François Caron and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis le XVIIIe siècle, l'Occident vit au rythme des avancées technologiques : mécanisation, industrialisation et révolution informatique. Mais c'est à partir des années 1950 que ces progrès techniques finirent vraiment par engendrer une nouvelle société, celle de la consommation de masse. Pour comprendre cet extraordinaire essor des niveaux de vie, François Caron a non seulement mobilisé les instruments fournis par l'histoire des techniques et par l'économie de l'innovation, mais aussi replacé ces révolutions industrielles dans leurs contextes tout en analysant les relations d'interdépendance entre l'innovation et la demande sociale, entre l'innovation et la recherche institutionnalisée. François Caron dresse un portrait saisissant du siècle qui s'achève sur une recomposition à peu près totale des logiques économiques et sociales, provoquant une situation de crise par laquelle, une nouvelle fois, se repose la question de la finalité de la science et de la technologie.
Download or read book Les Deux r volutions industrielles du XXo si cle written by François Caron and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis le XVIIIe siècle, l'Occident vit au rythme des avancées technologiques : mécanisation, industrialisation et révolution informatique. Mais c'est à partir des années 1950 que ces progrès techniques finirent vraiment par engendrer une nouvelle société, celle de la consommation de masse. Pour comprendre cet extraordinaire essor des niveaux de vie, François Caron a non seulement mobilisé les instruments fournis par l'histoire des techniques et par l'économie de l'innovation, mais aussi replacé ces révolutions industrielles dans leurs contextes tout en analysant les relations d'interdépendance entre l'innovation et la demande sociale, entre l'innovation et la recherche institutionnalisée. François Caron dresse un portrait saisissant du siècle qui s'achève sur une recomposition à peu près totale des logiques économiques et sociales, provoquant une situation de crise par laquelle, une nouvelle fois, se repose la question de la finalité de la science et de la technologie.
Download or read book The Second Twentieth Century written by Jean-Jacques Rosa and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Jacques Rosa offers an analysis of the "grand cycle" in social organization of the twentieth century, showing how the transformation in communication and information technology has led to the downfall of the old political and corporate hierarchies. He explains how today's explosion of freely available information is fueling the democratic free-market revolution and reveals its universal contemporary consequences.
Download or read book Dynamics of Innovation written by François Caron and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as the leading historian of French railways, François Caron has also done significant work on topics as varied as electricity, water and steam power, the theory of innovation, the structure of enterprise, and other aspects of economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this volume, he brings together these different facets of his expertise in order to present a broad panorama of modern technology. Caron shows how artisanal know-how was adapted, expanded, and formalized during the three industrial revolutions that swept over Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States in a comprehensive analysis of this long, complex, and continuous historical process, leading up to the twenty-first century. Thus, he illustrates the increasingly fruitful interaction between technological and scientific knowledge in modern times.
Download or read book Three Lectures on Post industrial Society written by Daniel Cohen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employees are left exposed, and shareholders act to protect themselves, Never has the awareness that we all live in the same world been so strong-and never have the social conditions of existence been so unequal."
Download or read book Our Modern Times written by Daniel Cohen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-02-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How information technology has replaced the work culture of paternalism and standardization with one of isolation and insecurity.
Download or read book La r volution conomique du XXe si cle written by Joseph Chappey and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Formation of the Swiss Hospital System 1840 1960 written by Pierre-Yves Donzé and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analysis of the formation of contemporary hospital systems between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century. Based on extensive archival material and a broad international literature review, it focuses on the case of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and uses a triple approach that discusses technological innovations, hospital management, and health policy. This research is a major contribution to the history of medicine which gives a unique overview of the formation of contemporary hospital systems.
Download or read book Europe in the Contemporary World 1900 to the Present written by Bonnie G. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly updated and improved edition of Bonnie G. Smith's classic textbook provides the most authoritative history available of Europe in a global context during the 20th and 21st centuries. It cleverly incorporates elements of political, social, cultural, economic and intellectual history and presents an integrated history with detailed coverage right across the continent. Including 131 images and 23 maps, Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to the Present is organized around key themes within a chronological chapter structure that is easy to follow. Smith's balanced treatment of the subject allows for a comprehensive assessment of the positive and negative developments in European history over the period, as well as the wider impact of this in the world at large. The book also includes picture essays and document sections, which provide variety and foreground the importance of primary sources, and useful end-of-chapter further readings for students who wish to investigate specific topics in greater depth. The enhanced 2nd edition contains: * A new chapter on the 21st-century issues that have challenged and continue to challenge Europe * More material on globalization, the end of the Cold War, European countercultures and various other topics * Historiographic updates throughout Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to the Present is the definitive guide to Europe and its place in the world since 1900 for students and scholars alike.
Download or read book M li s Boots written by Matthew Solomon and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before he became an influential cinematic innovator, Georges Méliès (1861–1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, Méliès Boots traces how the full trajectory of Georges Méliès’ career during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, along with the larger cultural and historical contexts in which Méliès operated, shaped his cinematic oeuvre. Solomon examines Méliès’ unpublished drawings and published caricatures, the role of laughter in his magic theater productions, and the constituent elements of what Méliès called "the new profession of the cinéaste." The book also reveals Méliès' connections to the Incohérents, a group of ephemeral artists from the 1880s, demonstrating the group’s relevance for Méliès, early cinema, and modernity. By positioning Méliès in relation to the material culture of his time, Solomon demonstrates that Méliès’ work was expressive of a distinctly modern, and modernist, sensibility that appeared in France during the 1880s in the wake of the Second Industrial Revolution.
Download or read book Capitals of Capital written by Youssef Cassis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `...useful reading for anyone interested in the antecedents of today's vibrant international financial markets.' --
Download or read book Prophets of Computing written by Dick van Lente and published by Morgan & Claypool. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines’ use. Ever since, diverse prophecies of computing have continually emerged, through to the present day. As computing spread beyond the US and UK, such prophecies emerged from strikingly different economic, political, and cultural conditions. This volume explores how these expectations differed, assesses unexpected commonalities, and suggests ways to understand the divergences and convergences. This book examines thirteen countries, based on source material in ten different languages—the effort of an international team of scholars. In addition to analyses of debates, political changes, and popular speculations, we also show a wide range of pictorial representations of "the future with computers."
Download or read book Le deuxi me r volution industrielle written by Hrant Pasdermadjian and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaping a Humane World written by Oliver Kozlarek and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The generation of meaning is the primary precondition for acting and thinking. The essays in this volume contribute to a discourse on this matter with a decentred, globalized world in mind. The notions civilization, humanism and modernity - far from being exclusively Western ideas - may facilitate joint efforts of reflecting on the universality of current human conditions, particularly since such reflexion is possible from particular cultural perspectives. Modernity presents us with a second Axial Time in which the quest for a plural, but shared, humane world is the challenge.
Download or read book Business History around the World written by Franco Amatori and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 book offered the first in-depth international survey of contemporary research and debates in business history. Over the two decades leading to its publication, enormous advances had been made in writing the history of business enterprise and business systems. Historians are documenting and analyzing the evolution of a wide range of important companies and systems, their patterns of innovation, production, and distribution, their financial affairs, their political activities, and their social impact. Each essay is written by a prominent authority who provides an assessment of the state and significance of research in his or her area. This volume is a reference work that will be of immense value to historians, economists, management researchers, and others concerned to access the latest insights on the evolution of business throughout the world.
