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

Headrick, Daniel R.

ISBN 10: 0195051165 / ISBN 13: 9780195051162

Published by Oxford University Press, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Daniel R. Headrick is at Roosevelt University, Chicago.