The digital flood:diffusion of information technology across the United States, Europe, and Asia

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cortada James W
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford New York
Publication Dates: c2012.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xix, 789 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780199921553 (cloth : alk. paper)
0199921555 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: TP3
CLC: TP3-09
Call Number: TP3-09/C827
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
How much computing is the in the world? -- Diffusion of computing starts in the United States -- West European deployment begins : Great Britain, France, and West Germany -- Diffusion of computing in Italy, Netherlands, and Sweden -- How Western Europe embraced information technologies -- Limits of diffusion : computing in the Soviet Union, German Democratic Republic and Eastern Europe -- Computing comes to Japan -- IT tigers of Asia : South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore -- China : embracing IT in changing times -- India and the limits of digital diffusion -- How Asia embraced information tec