Format:
1 online resource (416 pages)
ISBN:
9780198021780
Content:
This study analyzes why a massive transfer of Western technology to European colonies between 1850 and 1940 did not create an industrial revolution in those countries. It argues that the transfer of technology caused some colonial regions to become locked in a state of underdevelopment.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Imperialism, Technology, and Tropical Economies -- Technologies and Western-Tropical Relations -- The Transfer Process -- The Setting and the Argument -- Notes -- 2 Ships and Shipping -- Characteristics of World Shipping -- Steamships before 1869 -- The Suez Canal -- Shipbuilding after 1869 -- Tropical Harbors -- The New Organization of Shipping -- The Major Shipping Companies -- The Causes of British Supremacy -- Notes -- 3 The Railways of India -- Origins of the Indian Railways -- Building the Trunk Lines (1853-71) -- The Era of State Construction (1870-79) -- The New Guarantee Period (1880-1914) -- World War I and After (1914-47) -- The Locomotive Industry -- Consequences and Comparisons -- Notes -- 4 The Imperial Telecommunications Networks -- Submarine Telegraph Cables, 1850-70 -- Cable Technology to 1914 -- Submarine Cables and the British Empire, 1870-1914 -- The French Cable Network, 1856-95 -- British Abuses and French Reactions, 1884-1914 -- The Indian Telegraphs -- French Colonial Posts and Telegraphs -- Colonial Wireless Networks to 1918 -- British Wireless after 1918 -- French Wireless after 1918 -- Notes -- 5 Cities, Sanitation, and Segregation -- Hong Kong Water -- Calcutta Sewage and Sanitation -- Dakar and the Plague -- Notes -- 6 Hydraulic Imperialism in India and Egypt -- Precolonial Irrigation and British Restorations to 1837 -- The Classic Era of Indian Irrigation, 1838-54 -- The Era of Private Irrigation, 1854-69 -- Productive and Protective Works, 1866-98 -- The Indian Irrigation Commission and After, 1897-1940 -- Egypt, the Nile, and the British -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Economic Botany and Tropical Plantations -- Tropical Crops from Plunder to Science -- Plant Transfers and the British Botanic Empire -- Agricultural Research in the British Tropics.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195051155
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Headrick, Daniel R., 1941 - The tentacles of progress New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 1988 ISBN 0195051165
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0195051157
Additional Edition:
Print version The Tentacles of Progress : Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
,
Economics
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Kolonie
;
Technologietransfer
;
Geschichte 1850-1940
;
Imperialismus
;
Technologietransfer
;
Geschichte 1850-1940
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Technologietransfer
;
Industriestaaten
;
Geschichte 1850-1940
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
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Author information:
Headrick, Daniel R. 1941-
