Ashwani Vasishth <ashwani@csun.edu> [Last Update: May 14, 2000]

Adas, Michael. 1989. Machines As the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

al-Hassan, Ahmad Y. & Donald R. Hill. 1992. Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press; Paris: UNESCO.

Baber, Zaheer. 1996. The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule In India. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Bennett, Adrian A. 1967. John Fryer: The Introduction of Western Science and Technology Into Nineteenth-Century China. Cambridge, MA: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press..

Bodde, Derk. 1991. Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology In Pre-Modern China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Bray, Francesca. 1997. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power In Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Breuer, Hans. 1972. Columbus Was Chinese, Discoveries and Inventions of the Far East. Translated by Salvator Attanasio. New York: Herder and Herder.

Brockway, Lucile H. 1979. Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens. New York: Academic Press..

Brose, Eric D. 1998. Technology and Science In the Industrializing Nations, 1500-1914. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.

Brown, John J. 1967. Ideas In Exile; A History of Canadian Invention. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.

Burke, James & Robert Ornstein. 1995. The Axemaker's Gift: A Double-Edged History of Human Culture. Illustrations by Ted Dewan. New York: Putnam's.

Butzer, Karl W. (ed.). The Americas Before and After 1492: Current Geographical Research. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers.

["A special issue for the Columbian quincentenary."]

Chant, Colin. (ed.). 1999. The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader. London; New York: Routledge, in association with Open University Press.

Cohen, Daniel. 1982. The Last Hundred Years, Household Technology. New York: M. Evans.

[Describes the evolution of inventions which have lightened household drudgery, and includes a look at gadgets that didn't catch on and also at future possibilities] {Household appliances, United States, History, Juvenile literature, Technology, Inventions}

Currie, David & David Vines (eds.). 1988. Macroeconomic Interactions Between North and South. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.

[Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Sussex Conference Centre at the Isle of Thorns Sept. 18-20, 1987, and organized jointly by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the International Economics Study Group.]

Dharampal (comp.). 1971. Indian Science and Technology In the Eighteenth Century; Some Contemporary European Accounts. Delhi, Impex India

Dunn, Peter D. 1979. Appropriate Technology: Technology with a Human Face. New York: Schocken Books.

{Technology--Underdeveloped areas--Technology.}

Edgerton, David. 1996. Science, Technology, and the British Industrial "Decline", 1870-1970. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, for the Economic History Society.

Ezrahi, Yaron & Everett Mendelsohn & Howard Segal (eds.). 1995. Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Finch, Charles S. 1998. The Star of Deep Beginnings: The Genesis of African Science and Technology. Decatur, GA: Khenti, Inc.

Freeman, Michael J. 1999. Railways and the Victorian Imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Gao, James Z. 1997. Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Change In China and Zimbabwe In the Railway Age. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Goodman, David. 1999. The European Cities and Technology Reader: Industrial To Post-Industrial City. London; New York: Routledge, in association with the Open University Press.

Griffiths, Tom & Libby Robin (eds.). Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

Hall, Bert S. & Delno C. West (eds.). 1976. On Pre-Modern Technology and Science: A Volume of Studies In Honor of Lynn White, Jr. Malibu, CA: Undena: published under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Hanson, Jarice & Uma Narula. 1990. New Communication Technologies in Developing Countries. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Hard, Mikael & Andrew Jamison (eds.). 1998. The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology : Discourses On Modernity, 1900-1939. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Harris, John R. 1998. Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France In the Eighteenth Century. Aldershort, Hants, England; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate.

Headrick, Daniel R. 1981. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism In the Nineteenth Century. New York : Oxford University Press.

Headrick, Daniel R. 1988. The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hill, Donald R. 1998. Studies In Medieval Islamic Technology: From Philo to Al-JazarI, From Alexandria To DiyAr Bakr. Edited by David A. King. Aldershot, England; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate.

[Contents: Islamic fine technology and its influence on the development of European horology -- Medieval Arabic mechanical technology -- From Philo to al-Jazari -- Arabic fine technology and its influence on European mechanical engineering -- Arabic mechanical engineering : survey of the historical sources -- Information on engineering in the works of Muslim geographers -- Hydraulic machines -- Les oevres de Heron et leur contexte historique -- Construction of a fluting machine by Apollonius the carpenter -- The nilometer -- The Banu Musa and their Book of ingenious devices -- Qusta ibn Luqa -- Al-Biruni's mechanical calendar -- Al-Jazari -- Notice of an important al-Jazari manuscript -- A treatise on machines by Ibn Muadh Abu Abdallah al-Jayyani [the treatise is by Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi. Ed] -- Andalusian technology -- Trebuchets -- The camel and the horse and the early Arab conquests.]

Hindle, Brooke. 1981. Emulation and Invention. New York: New York University Press.

Horowitz, Roger & Arwen Mohun (eds.). 1998. His And Hers: Gender, Consumption, And Technology. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.

Howe, Christopher. 1996. The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology In Asia from 1540 To the Pacific War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin (ed.). 1992. Transfer of Modern Science & Technology To the Muslim World. Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture.

[Proceedings of the International Symposium On "Modern Sciences and the Muslim World": Science and Technology Transfer from the West To the Muslim World from the Renaissance To the Beginning of the XXth Century (Istanbul 2-4 September 1987).]

Inkster, Ian. 1991. Science And Technology In History: An Approach To Industrial Development. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Inkster, Ian. 1998. Technology and Industrialisation: Historical Case Studies and International Perspectives. Aldershot, UK; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate.

Islam, Rizwanul (ed.). 1992. Transfer, Adoption, and Diffusion of Technology for Small And Cottage Industries. New Delhi, India: Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion: World Employment Programme.

[Proceedings of the International Seminar on Transfer of Technology for SCIs Amongst Developing Countries, held at New Delhi in May 1990.] {Small business--India--Technological innovations--Cottage industries.}

Johns, R.A. Colonial Trade and International Exchange: The Transition from Autarky to International Trade.

Josephson, Paul R. 1996. Totalitarian Science and Technology. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.

[Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953; Science--Technology--Social aspects--Political Aspects--Germany--History--20th century}

Keiji, Yamada (ed.). 1994. The tTansfer of Science and Technology Between Europe and Asia, 1780-1880: The Second Conference on the Transfer of Science and Technology Between Europe and Asia Since Vasco da Gama (1498-1998). Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies.

Kenwood, A.G. & A.L. Lougheed. 1982. Technological Diffusion and Industrialization Before 1914. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Kumar, Deepak (ed.). 1985. Science and Empire: Essays In Indian Context, 1700-1947. Delhi: Anamika Prakashan.

[Papers presented at a seminar organized by National Institute of Science, Technology, and Development Studies (India) in January 1985.]

Kumar, Deepak. 1995. Science and the Raj, 1857-1905. Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press.

{Science--India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947}

LaCapra, Dominick. 1991. The Bounds of Race: Perspectives On Hegemony and Resistance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Lal, Deepak & H. Myint. 1996. The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: A Comparative Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press.

Leach, Melissa & Robin Mearns (eds.). 1996. The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment. Oxford: International African Institute, in assocation with James Currey; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Linder, Marc. 1994. Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Linton, Joan P. 1998. The Romance of the New World: Gender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Macleod, Roy & Deepak Kumar (eds.). 1995. Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers To India, 1700-1947. New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Maddison, Angus et al. The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Brazil and Mexico .

Madu, Christian. 1992. Strategic Planning in Technology Transfer to Less Developed Countries. New York: Quorum.

Merson, John. 1990. The Genius of China: East and West In the Making of the Modern World. New York, NY: Overlook Press.

Moran, Bruce T. (ed.). 1989. Patronage and Institutions: Science, Technology, and Medicine At the European Court, 1500-1750. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press.

[Based on a symposium for the 18th International Congress for the History of Science, held in Hamburg in the summer of 1989.]

Musson, Albert E. & Eric Robinson. 1969. Science and Technology In the Industrial Revolution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Needham, Joseph. 1970. Clerks and Craftsmen In China and the West: Lectures and Addresses On the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Osborne, Michael A. 1994. Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Pacey, Arnold. 1990. Technology In World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pacey, Arnold. 1992. The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism In the Development of Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Patton, Phil. 1992. Made In U.S.A.: The Secret Histories of the Things That Made America. New York: Grove Weidenfeld.

Pryor, Frederic L. 1988. Income Distribution and Economic Development in Madagascar: Some Historical Statistics. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Pryor, Frederic L. 1990. The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Malawi and Madagascar. New York: Published for the World Bank [by] Oxford University Press.

Qian, Wen-yuan. 1985. The Great Inertia: Scientific Stagnation In Traditional China. London; Dover, NH: Croom Helm.

Rahman, A. & D.P. Chattopadhyaya (eds.). 1999. History of Indian Science, Technology and Culture: AD 1000 - 1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Reeves, Geoffrey. 1993. Communications and the "Third World." New York: Routledge.

Roberts, Gerrylynn K. (ed.). 1999. The American Cities and Technology Reader: Wilderness To Wired City. London; New York: Routledge, in association with The Open University Press.

Ross, Kristin. 1995. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Sangwan, Satpal. 1991. Science, Technology and Colonisation: An Indian Experience, 1757-1857. Delhi: Anamika Prakashan.

Selin, Helaine (ed.). 1997. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine In Non-Western Cultures. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic.

Stanley, Autumn. 1993. Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for A Revised History of Technology. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Teich, Mikulas & Robert Young (eds.). 1973. Changing Perspectives In the History of Science: Essays In Honour of Joseph Needham. London: Heinemann Educational.

Temple, Robert K.G. 1986. The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention. New York: Simon and Schuster.

[Popularization of Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation In China.]

Todd, Jan. 1995. Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation To Australia. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Trescott, Martha M. (ed.). 1979. Dynamos and Virgins Revisited: Women and Technological Change In History: An Anthology. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Tunis, Edwin. 1965. Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.

Tyabji, Nasir. 1995. Colonialism, Chemical Technology and Industry In Southern India. Delhi; Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[Study with special reference to Madras, India; covers period: 1880-1937.]

UNESCO. 1970. Science and Technology In Asian Development. Paris: UNESCO.

[Conference on the Application of Science and Technology to the Development of Asia, New Delhi, India, 1968, convened by UNESCO in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East.]

Vilanilam, J.V. 1993. Science Communication and Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Williams, Frederick & David V. Gibson (eds.). 1990. Technology Transfer: A Communication Perspective. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Woods, Bernard. 1993. Communication, Technology, and the Development of People. New York: Routledge.

Wulff, Hans E. 1966. The Traditional Crafts of Persia: Their Development, Technology, and Influence On Eastern and Western Civilizations. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Yoshikawa, Hideo & Joanne Kauffman. 1994. Science Has No National Borders: Harry C. Kelly and the Reconstruction of Science and Technology In Postwar Japan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Zlotnick, Susan. 1998. Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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