Pursuing Big Books: Technological Change in Global History

History of Technology: Volume 22

Volumn 22, Issue , 2016, Pages 233-254

  Inkster, Ian ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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