The Tentacles of Progress

The Tentacles of Progress
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Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780195051162
ISBN-13 : 0195051165
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Book Synopsis The Tentacles of Progress by : Daniel R. Headrick

Download or read book The Tentacles of Progress written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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