Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances Gies

In 1965, he left This Week to become an editor at Doubleday & Co., where he wrote two pictorial biographies, Harry S Truman and Franklin D. The latter was translated into Japanese and Thai and into basic English for Japanese readers. In the 1960s he published a series of books on technology: Adventure Underground, the Story of the World’s Great Tunnels in 1962, Bridges and Men, in 1963, and Wonders of the Modern World in 1966. His first book, a war novel, They Never Had It So Good, was published in 1949, and was described by a New York Herald Tribune reviewer as “a most ingenious argument against war.” His college novel, A Matter of Morals, appeared the following year. When the European war ended, he worked for Yank in Paris and later Stars and Stripes in New York. During World War II, he served with the 42nd Division in France and Germany and was present at the liberation of Dachau. He married Frances Carney in New York in 1940. He worked for two years before entering the University of Michigan, where his official major was history, but in his own words, he “majored in the Michigan Daily,” serving as associate editor and book editor in his senior year.Īfter graduation from Michigan in 1939, he went to New York in search of an editorial job, editing a Latin-American trade paper and reading scripts for 20th Century-Fox’s New York story department, and eventually becoming an editor of This Week Magazine, the Sunday supplement, where he remained for 23 years. He grew up in Rochester, N.Y., returning with his family to Ann Arbor in 1932, and graduating from Ann Arbor High School in 1933. Europe synthesized its own innovations-the three-field system, water power in industry, the full-rigged ship, the putting-out system-into a powerful new combination of technology, economics, and politics.FARMINGTON – Joseph Gies, editor, author and co-author of 20 books as well as many articles and short stories, died at Sandy River Nursing Home on April 13, after a long illness. The Gieses report that many of Europe’s most important inventions-the horse harness, the stirrup, the magnetic compass, cotton and silk cultivation and manufacture, papermaking, firearms, and “Arabic” numerals-had their origins outside Europe, in China, India, and the Middle East. In this account of Europe’s rise to world leadership in technology, Frances and Joseph Gies show how early modern technology and experimental science were direct outgrowths of the decisive innovations of medieval Europe, in the tools and techniques of agriculture, craft industry, metallurgy, building construction, navigation, and war. Martin as source material for Game of Thrones, comes a classic book on innovation and technological change in medieval Europe From bestselling historians Joseph and Frances Gies, whose books have been used by George R.R.

Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances Gies