Crawford, M. D. C.

THE CONQUEST OF CULTURE: HOW MAN INVENTED HIS WAY TO CIVILIZATION

Fairchild Publishing Co. New York 1948 rev ed 449pp HC Author was a popularizer of knowledge on theforce of technology on the history of culture. Lewis Mumford said of this book, "It is the best general survey of the role of invention in civilization, from pre-historic man to the present." Crawford traces mana's material culture from its earliest beginnings, with the cutting edge of flint, through the ice age, from herding to domestication, to the mechanical processes and inventions of the modern industrial complex. good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket)

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