The Technology of Man: A Visual History

by Carlo M. Cipolla, Derek Birdsall

Real seller with inventory on hand. Oversize Hardback. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979. Near Fine / Good. First Edition A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Worn price-clipped dust jacket with small tears. Approx. 250 pages. Many illustrations.

271 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Carlo M. Cipolla was an Italian economic historian. He was born in Pavia, where he got his academic degree in 1944.

As a young man, Cipolla wanted to teach history and philosophy in an Italian high school, and therefore enrolled at the political science faculty at Pavia University. Whilst a student there, thanks to professor Franco Borlandi, a specialist in Medieval economic history, he discovered his passion for economic history. Subsequently he studied at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics.

Cipolla obtained his first teaching post in economic history in Catania at the age of 27. This was to be the first stop in a long academic career in Italy (Venice, Turin, Pavia, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Fiesole) and abroad. In 1953 Cipolla left for the United States as a Fulbright fellow and in 1957 became a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Two years later he obtained a full professorship.
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