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- Explores the connection between language, technology, and empire
- Argues that standardized language made the Industrial Revolution possible
- Connects literacy to the rise of the West in the seventeenth century
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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The Linguistic RevolutionLinguistic Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution
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The (Second) Military RevolutionMilitary Revolution (Second)
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Book Title: The Singularity of Western Innovation
Book Subtitle: The Language Nexus
Authors: Leonard Dudley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39822-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40317-9Published: 15 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39822-2Published: 14 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 316
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Development Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic Growth