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The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
Daniel R. Headrick (Author)
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Oxford University Press
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The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the age of Imperialism, 1850-1940 - Daniel R. Headrick
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Synopsis "The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the age of Imperialism, 1850-1940"
In this trenchant examination of a paradox of colonial rule, Daniel Headrick, author of the widely acclaimedTools of Empire, shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa led not to industrialization but to underdevelopment. He argues that colonial rulers dissociated the geographic transfer of technology from its cultural diffusion by allowing only Europeans access to technical educations and discouraging non-European entrepreneurs. 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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