Medieval technology and social change

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1. thimkerbellNov 2023
   And from Paulg, "White's Medieval Technology and Social Change is the most fabulous book. http://goo.gl/cPujcr "
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2. dpeckJul 2023
   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...

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3. HamptonFoundersJul 2023
   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

   -The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester

   -The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

   -Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr.

   -The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner

   -Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics by Eric H. Chaney

   -Early Electrical Communication by A. F. Marland

   -Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus P. Thompson

   -Electric Science: Its History, Phenomena, and Applications by J. J. Fahie

   -The History and Present State of Electricity by Andrew Ure

   -https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

   -De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola

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4. mmorrisJun 2014
   I think the list mr_luc is referencing is in the second answer on this page: http://www.paulgraham.com/raq.html

   EDIT: Here's the whole list, for completeness: Clark, Civilisation White, Medieval Technology and Social Change McEvedy, Penguin Atlases of Ancient and Medieval History Laslett, The World We Have Lost Bernal, The Extension of Man Franklin, Autobiography Girouard, Life in the English Country House Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople Cipolla, Guns, Sails and Empires Hadas, A History of Rome Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages Vasari, Lives of the Artists Bovill, The Golden Trade of the Moors Caesar, Gallic Wars Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution

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5. pgJan 2010
   Medieval Technology and Social Change. The title sounds boring, but this one of those books that just cranks your brain open. There is so much new stuff in it. Or at least, stuff that was new when it was published in the 1960s.

   Carlo Cipolla's Guns, Sails, and Empires is a close second. His Clocks and Culture is also very good; the prologue is probably the best 21 page summary of the history of western technology that you could find anywhere.

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6. pgOct 2009
   My Family and Other Animals

   Medieval Technology and Social Change

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