Historians of technology tend to preoccupy ourselves with a narrower slice of the human experience than we have to; most of our work focuses on the “industrial age”, post-1850, and on the North Atlantic-oriented world—Western Europe and North America, and their efforts to colonize and exploit the rest of the world.
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Historians of technology tend to preoccupy ourselves with a narrower slice of the human experience than we have to; most of our work focuses on the “industrial age”, post-1850, and on the North Atlantic-oriented world—Western Europe and North America, and their efforts to colonize and exploit the rest of the world.