Technology and Civilization II Reader
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 120
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Editor’s Note
Ch 01 Richard G. Klein, “What Do We Know About Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon Man?”
Ch 02 Roger Lewin, “A Revolution of Ideas in Agricultural Origins”
Ch 03 Jared Diamond, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”
Ch 04 John Keegan, “Flesh”
Ch 05 H. W. F. Saggs, “Pyramids and Ziggurats”
Ch 06 James E. McLellan III and Harold Dorn, “The Middle Kingdom”
Ch 07 Jared Diamond, “The Accidental Conqueror”
Ch 08 Richard W. Bulliet, “How the Camel Got its Saddle”
Ch 09 Daniel J. Boorstin, “A Mad Prophet Points the Way”
Ch 10 Charles L. Mee, “How a Mysterious Disease Laid Low Europe’s Masses”
Ch 11 David Birmingham, “Portugal’s Impact on Africa”
David Lucsko is Professor of History at Auburn University, where he teaches courses in the history of technology, manufacturing, transportation, and waste management. He earned his B.A. from Georgia Tech in 1998 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 2005. He is the author of The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915-1990 (2008) and Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past (2016).