Ian Inkster
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
312
1998
These thirteen essays embrace case studies of Britain Japan Europe China India and Australasia and cover a period from circa 1700 to the present day. The author?s main intention is to illustrate a ?political economy' approach to industrial and technological history to demonstrate the relations between technical and instutitional transformations and to bring the history of technology into a wide historical perspective.