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

Headrick, Daniel R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195051157 ISBN 13 : 9780195051155

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1988

Synopsis

Daniel Headrick, author of the highly acclaimed Tools of Empire , here examines why the massive transfer of Western technology to European colonies did not spark an industrial revolution in those countries. Rather than spurring economic progress, he argues, the transfer of stock technology between 1850 and 1940 caused the traditional self-sufficient economies of the colonial regions to be stuck in a state of underdevelopment, a legacy which burdens these countries to this day. He goes on to consider the introduction into the colonies of innovations in communications (e.g. shipping, railways, telegraphs), commercial agriculture, resource extraction, and industrial production, contrasting it with the efforts of European colonial administrators to limit the diffusion of technological knowledge among native populations. Historians interested in economic, industrial, and colonial history.

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Revue de presse

`Headrick's wide reading of the secondary literatures is evident in his accounts of the global shipping industry and of Hong Kong's water supply and sanitation, in his reading of hydraulic imperialism in Egypt, in his discussion of technical education in West Africa and in his commentary on economic botany and the tropical plantations of Empire ... this is a very valuable book indeed. Some of the most important structures of the global formation between 1850-1940 are very clearly set before us and their interconnections rightly emphasized.' Journal of Historical Geography

Présentation de l'éditeur

Daniel Headrick examines why the massive transfer of Western technology to European colonies did not spark an industrial revolution in those countries. Rather than spurring economic progress, he argues, the transfer of stock technology between 1850 and 1940 caused the traditional self-sufficient economies of the colonial regions to be stuck in a state of underdevelopment, a legacy which burdens these countries to this day.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195051157
• ISBN 13: 9780195051155
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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