The wheel : inventions & reinventions / Richard W. Bulliet.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Series
- Columbia studies in international and global history
- Columbia studies in international and global history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227, 237-239) and index.
- Contents
- Wheel versus wheel -- Why invent the wheel? -- A square peg in a round wheel -- Home on the range -- Wheels for show -- The rise and demise of the charioteer -- The princess ride -- The carriage revolution -- Four wheels in China -- Rickshaw cities -- The third wheel.
- Summary
- Bulliet expands the social, economic, and political significance of a tool we only partially understand.
- Subject
- Wheels -- History.
- Wheels.
- Genre/Form
- History.
- ISBN
- 9780231173384 (hardcover alkaline paper)
- 0231173385 (hardcover alkaline paper)