The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940

Headrick, Daniel R.

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ISBN 10: 0195051165 ISBN 13: 9780195051162

Published by Oxford University Press, 1988

Language: English

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The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

0195051165

ISBN 13

9780195051162

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Paperback

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Good

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18 ounces

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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. Examining the 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 the roots of Asian and African underdevelopment.

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Daniel R. Headrick is at Roosevelt University, Chicago.

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