The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World

Buch | Hardcover

896 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518731-1 (ISBN)

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Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to the topics of engineering and technology. This volume highlights both the accomplishments of the ancient societies and the remaining research problems, and stimulates further progress in the history of ancient technology. The subject matter of the book is the technological framework of the Greek and Roman cultures from ca. 800 B.C. through ca. A.D. 500 in the circum-Mediterranean world and Northern Europe. Each chapter discusses a technology or family of technologies from an analytical rather than descriptive point of view, providing a critical summation of our present knowledge of the Greek and Roman accomplishments in the technology concerned and the evolution of their technical capabilities over the chronological period. Each presentation reviews the issues and recent contributions, and defines the capacities and accomplishments of the technology in the context of the society that used it, the available "technological shelf," and the resources consumed. These studies introduce and synthesize the results of excavation or specialized studies. The chapters are organized in sections progressing from sources (written and representational) to primary (e.g., mining, metallurgy, agriculture) and secondary (e.g., woodworking, glass production, food preparation, textile production and leather-working) production, to technologies of social organization and interaction (e.g., roads, bridges, ships, harbors, warfare and fortification), and finally to studies of general social issues (e.g., writing, timekeeping, measurement, scientific instruments, attitudes toward technology and innovation) and the relevance of ethnographic methods to the study of classical technology. The unrivalled breadth and depth of this volume make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the spectrum of classical studies.

John Peter Oleson is Distinguished Professor of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria, Canada.

Contributors
Abbreviations and Spelling Norms
Introduction
Part I: Sources
1: (Serafina Cuomo): Ancient Written Sources for Engineering and Technology
2: (Roger Ulrich): Representations of Technical Processes
3: (Kevin Greene): Historiography and Theoretical Approaches
Part II: Primary, Extractive Technologies
4: (Paul T. Craddock): Mining and Metallurgy
5: (J. Clayton Fant): Quarrying and Stoneworking
6: (Örjan Wikander): Sources of Energy and Exploitation of Power
7: (Evi Margaritis and Martin K. Jones): Greek and Roman Agriculture
8: (Geoffrey Kron): Animal Husbandry, Hunting, Fishing, and Fish Production
Part III: Engineering and Complex Machines
9: (Fredrick A. Cooper): Greek Engineering and Construction
10: (Lynne Lancaster): Roman Engineering and Construction
11: (Andrew I. Wilson): Hydraulic Engineering and Water Supply
12: (Klaus Grewe): Tunnels and Canals
13: (Andrew I. Wilson): Machines in Greek and Roman Technology
Part IV: Secondary Processes and Manufacturing
14: (Robert I. Curtis): Food Processing and Preparation
15: (Andrew I. Wilson): Large-Scale Manufacturing, Standardization, and Trade
16: (Carol Mattusch): Metalworking and Tools
17: (Roger B. Ulrich): Woodworking
18: (John P. Wild): Textile Production
19: (Carol van Driel-Murray): Tanning and Leather
20: (Mark Jackson and Kevin Greene): Ceramic Production
21: (E. Marianne Stern): Glass Production
Part V: Technologies of Movement and Transport
22: (Lorenzo Quilici): Land Transport, Part 1: Roads and Bridges
23: (Georges Raepsaet): Land Transport, Part 2: Riding, Harnesses, and Vehicles
24: (Seán McGrail): Sea Transport, Part 1: Ships and Navigation
25: (David J. Blackman): Sea Transport, Part 2: Harbors
Part VI: Technologies of Death
26: (Philip de Souza): Greek Warfare and Fortification
27: (Gwyn Davies): Roman Warfare and Fortification
Part VII: Technologies of the Mind
28: (Willy Clarysse and Katelijn Vandorpe): Information Technologies: Writing, Book Production, and the Role of Literacy
29: (Robert Hannah): Timekeeping
30: Technologies of Calculation
Part 1: Weights and Measures(Charlotte Wikander):
Part 2: Coinage(Andrew Meadows):
Part 3: Practical Mathematics(Karin Tybjerg):
31: (Örjan Wikander): Gadgets and Scientific Instruments
32: (Kevin Greene): Inventors, Invention, and Attitudes toward Innovation
Part VIII: Ancient Technologies in the Modern World
33: (Michael B. Schiffer): Expanding Ethnoarchaeology: Historical Evidence and Model-Building in the Study of Technological Change
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.2.2008
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	60 halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	249 x 170 mm
Gewicht	1721 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-518731-8 / 0195187318
ISBN-13	978-0-19-518731-1 / 9780195187311
Zustand	Neuware