Seeking to understand the cultural origins of the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, this text first looks at the scientific culture of the sevent

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Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society.

After challenging the multicultural effort to “provincialize” the history of Western civilization, this book argues that the roots of the West’s exception