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Rebels Against the Future - by Kirkpatrick Sale (Paperback)

Name: Rebels Against the Future - by Kirkpatrick Sale (Paperback)
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SKU: 77014528
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Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other.
About the Author: Kirkpatrick Sale is a contributing editor of The Nation and the author of many books, including Conquering Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy.
336 Pages
History, Europe

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The first popular history of the rebellion against technology that still reverberates today. In the 1990s we use the term "luddite" to refer to anyone not enamored of technology. Now the author of The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy takes us back to the time when being a Luddite could get you hanged.

Book Synopsis

Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker, Rebels Against the Future takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811. Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites' struggle to preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them; he then invokes a new-Luddite spirit in response to today's technological revolution and calls for another sort of rebellion: not one of violence but rather of intellectually and ethically sound protest.

About the Author

Kirkpatrick Sale is a contributing editor of The Nation and the author of many books, including Conquering Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.18 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x .89 Inches (D)

Weight: .98 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 336

Genre: History

Sub-Genre: Europe

Publisher: Basic Books

Format: Paperback

Author: Kirkpatrick Sale

Language: English

Street Date: May 1, 1996

TCIN: 77014528

UPC: 9780201407181

Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-1994

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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