The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... ancient institution that had long been in abeyance : forced labor and compulsory national service for war . The first took the form of slavery and wage labor , under threat of starvation and imprisonment : a system that , like slavery ...
... ancient institution that had long been in abeyance : forced labor and compulsory national service for war . The first took the form of slavery and wage labor , under threat of starvation and imprisonment : a system that , like slavery ...
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... ancient world . The rest of the material was partly derived from unedited accounts handed on by Hakluyt . Rich , E. E. , and C. H. Wilson ( editors ) . The Cambridge Economic History of Europe . 6 vols . Cambridge : 1967 . Rickover ...
... ancient world . The rest of the material was partly derived from unedited accounts handed on by Hakluyt . Rich , E. E. , and C. H. Wilson ( editors ) . The Cambridge Economic History of Europe . 6 vols . Cambridge : 1967 . Rickover ...
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... ancient achievements in , 171 " Theater of the Cruel , ' 251 Theft , provocation to , 332 Theological conflicts , science's release from , 73 Think tanks , 301 ' Thinking the Unthinkable , ' 349 Thiusen , Ismal , 212n Thoreau , Henry ...
... ancient achievements in , 171 " Theater of the Cruel , ' 251 Theft , provocation to , 332 Theological conflicts , science's release from , 73 Think tanks , 301 ' Thinking the Unthinkable , ' 349 Thiusen , Ismal , 212n Thoreau , Henry ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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