The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
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Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 1988
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- Title
- The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
- Author
- Headrick, Daniel R.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195051165
- ISBN 13
- 9780195051162
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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About the Author
Daniel R. Headrick is at Roosevelt University, Chicago.
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