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The Tentacles of Progress
Daniel R. Headrick
其他書名
Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
出版Oxford University Press, 1988-03-10
主題Technology & Engineering / HistoryHistory / Historical GeographyBusiness & Economics / Economic History
ISBN019802178X9780198021780
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0wjDxYlArQAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.