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

by Daniel R. Headrick

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195051165
• ISBN13: 9780195051162
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"