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The tentacles of progress: technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940
Daniel R. Headrick-
Frontmatter
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1 Imperialism, Technology, and Tropical Economies (page 3)
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Technologies and Western-Tropical Relations
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The Transfer Process
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The Setting and the Argument
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Notes
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2 Ships and Shipping (page 18)
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Characteristics of World Shipping
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Steamships before 1869
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The Suez Canal
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Shipbuilding after 1869
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Tropical Harbors
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The New Organization of Shipping
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The Major Shipping Companies
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The Causes of British Supremacy
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Notes
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3 The Railways of India (page 49)
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Origins of the Indian Railways
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Building the Trunk Lines (1853-71)
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The Era of State Construction (1870-79)
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The New Guarantee Period (1880-1914)
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World War I and After (1914-47)
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The Locomotive Industry
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Consequences and Comparisons
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Notes
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4 The Imperial Telecommunications Network (page 97)
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Submarine Telegraph Cables, 1850-70
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Cable Technology to 1914
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Submarine Cables and the British Empire, 1870-1914
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The French Cable Network, 1856-95
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British Abuses and French Reactions, 1884-1914
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The Indian Telegraphs
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French Colonial Posts and Telegraphs
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Colonial Wireless Networks to 1918
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British Wireless after 1918
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French Wireless after 1918
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Notes
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5 Cities, Sanitation, and Segregation (page 145)
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Hong Kong Water
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Calcutta Sewage and Sanitation
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Dakar and the Plague
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Notes
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6 Hydraulic Imperialism in India and Egypt (page 171)
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Precolonial Irrigation and British Restorations to 1837
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The Classic Era of Indian Irrigation, 1838-54
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The Era of Private Irrigation, 1854-69
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Productive and Protective Works, 1866-98
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The Indian Irrigation Commission and After, 1897-1940
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Egypt, the Nile, and the British
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Conclusion
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Notes
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7 Economic Botany and Tropical Plantations (page 209)
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Tropical Crops from Plunder to Science
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Plant Transfers and the British Botanic Empire
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Agricultural Research in the British Tropics
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Science and Agriculture in the Dutch East Indies
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Tropical Botany in France
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Botany and Plantations in the French Empire
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Cinchona
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Sugar Cane
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Rubber
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Conclusion
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Notes
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8 Mining and Metallurgy (page 259)
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Malayan Tin and Chinese Technology in the Nineteenth Century
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The Western Takeover of Malayan Tin
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Opening the African Copperbelt
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Katanga Copper, 1911-40
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Iron and Steel in India: The Demand Side
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Indian Iron before 1914
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Background of the Indian Steel Industry
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The Tata Iron and Steel Company
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Conclusion
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Notes
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9 Technical Education (page 304)
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Technical Education in Egypt
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Vocational Education in West Africa
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Technical Education in India: Demand and Supply
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The Politics of Technical Education in India
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Foreign Study and Independent Schools
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Technical Education after World War I
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Conclusion
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Notes
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10 Experts and Enterprises (page 352)
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The Smallholders
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The Experts
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The Cotton Mills
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Indian Shipping and Shipbuilding
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Indianizing the Steel Industry
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Technology Transfer and Colonial Politics (page 379)
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Bibliographical Essay (page 385)
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Index (page 391)
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Published: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780198021780 (ebook)
- 9780195051155 (hardcover)
- 9780195051162 (paper)