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

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The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940 - Headrick, Daniel R
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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 ...

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The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940 1988, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195051162

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The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940 1988, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195051155

Hardcover