The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
by Daniel R. Headrick
2021-01-06 19:41:41
The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
by Daniel R. Headrick
2021-01-06 19:41:41
This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industriali...
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This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examiningthe most important technologies--shipping and railways, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany and plantation agriculture, irrigation, and mining and metallurgy--Headrick provides a new perspective on colonial economic history and reopens the debate on theroots of Asian and African underdevelopment.
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