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Tools : making things around the world

Title
Tools : making things around the world / Hubert Comte ; translated from the French by Molly Stevens and David Marinelli ; research consultant, Jay Cardinal ; French literary extracts translated by Marjolijn de Jager.
Author
Comte, Hubert, 1933-2009
Publication
New York : H.N. Abrams, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Stevens, Molly
  • Marinelli, David
  • Cardinal, Jay.
  • De Jager, Marjolijn
Description
352 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm
Summary
"Celebrated human ingenuity and the brillance of craftspeople by depicting tools not as inert objects, but as instruments of a particular culture intended for use in a specific time and place"--Cover.
Uniform Title
Outils du monde. English
Alternative Title
Outils du monde.
Subject
  • Tools
  • Tools
  • Bildband
  • Werkzeug
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes index.
Contents
Defining tools -- Wood -- Stone -- Agriculture -- Textiles -- Metal -- Leather -- Food -- The future -- Proverbs.
ISBN
  • 0810938995
  • 9780810938991
LCCN
98022777
OCLC
  • ocm39007200
  • 39007200
  • SCSB-1126846
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library