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Dudley, Leonard.

The singularity of western innovationthe language nexus /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The singularity of western innovationby Leonard Dudley.
Reminder of title:	the language nexus /
Author:	Dudley, Leonard.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2017.
Description:	xix, 316 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Standard language.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39822-2
ISBN:	9781137398222$q(electronic bk.)

The singularity of western innovationthe language nexus /
Dudley, Leonard.

The singularity of western innovationthe language nexus /[electronic resource] :by Leonard Dudley. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2017. - xix, 316 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three Western states - Britain, France, and the United states. This book argues that Western Europe and its offshoots were the only Eurasian societies able to apply typography cheaply to their writing systems. The emergence in the West of large networks of people able to communicate in standardized languages made possible the breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution. Military byproducts of three "macro-innovations"- the steam engine, machine tools, and interchangeable parts - then constituted the West's toolbox for empire. The book will appeal to readers seeking to explain how the West attained its unprecedented advance over Asia in the nineteenth century, and why this lead has since proved temporary.

ISBN: 9781137398222$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-39822-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

292340
Standard language.

LC Class. No.: P368

Dewey Class. No.: 410

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