Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (London: Wildwood House, 1982). On the fluctuating relationship of woman to nature and/or the social, see, for example, Denise Riley, "Am I That Name?" Feminism and the Category of "Women" in History (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1988).

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Page 44 In terms of the sophistication of individual machines, however, notably for textile processing, and in terms of the broad scope of its technology, Europe was still a backward region, which stood to benefit much from its contacts with Islam. Appears in 3 books from 1990-2005

Page viii Sometimes it is like a dialogue or dialectic in which recipients of a new body of knowledge and technique 'interrogate' it on the basis of their own experience and knowledge of local conditions. In these instances, the initial 'transfer of technology' itself is only the first stage in a larger process. Appears in 3 books from 1892-1993

Page 190 - We were feebly scratching at the surface of events we hardly knew, and if we achieved anything at all, it was often to exacerbate the ills of the societies we imagined ourselves to be helping Appears in 3 books from 1985-2007

Page 7 Another point to notice about the invention of the pound lock is that, like the introduction of Champa rice, it shows how officials in central or local government could be active innovators. There are several other examples of technological innovation originating within the bureaucracy during the years when the Song dynasty ruled at Kaifeng (AD 960-1 126), some related to clocks and some to military equipment. Appears in 2 books from 1990-2005

Page 192 - Much of the adaptive work necessary to support India's green revolution was carried out by Indian plant breeders at local agricultural research stations. But these institutions were situated on good land, and it was experiment and innovation by ordinary farmers which ensured the success of the new crops on the poorer soils. Sometimes, indeed, the farmers chose to use crop varieties which had been rejected by official research. Appears in 2 books from 1990-1992

Page 68 One other problem facing Europeans in Asia was that their trade was chronically out of balance, because there were very few goods manufactured in Europe which Asians wanted to buy. European products were of inferior quality, or irrelevant to Asian needs. Guns were certainly in demand, but muskets and cannon manufactured in the Islamic countries or Thailand were often of good quality. Appears in 2 books from 1990-2005

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