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Preface | p. vii |
Technology and Improvement | p. 1 |
Plows and Horse | p. 13 |
Power | p. 31 |
Buildings for God and Man | p. 49 |
Transforming Matter | p. 71 |
Light and Time | p. 91 |
Types of Change | p. 113 |
Earth, Fire, Water, and Air | p. 129 |
Improving Knowledge | p. 149 |
Improvers and Engineers | p. 171 |
Raising Fire | p. 191 |
Fabrics of Change | p. 211 |
Artisans, Philosophes, and Entrepreneurs | p. 235 |
Airs and Lightning | p. 255 |
Mobility | p. 275 |
Messages | p. 295 |
Engineering Emerges | p. 319 |
Stuff, Reality, and Dreams | p. 341 |
The Improvement of Violence | p. 363 |
Learning | p. 385 |
Dynamics | p. 401 |
Land and Life | p. 429 |
Scale | p. 449 |
The Corruption of Improvement | p. 479 |
Networks | p. 503 |
Improvement's End | p. 527 |
Notes | p. 545 |
Index | p. 569 |
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