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The tentacles of progress: technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940

Daniel R. Headrick 1988 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780195051162 (paper)
  • 9780195051155 (hardcover)
  • 9780198021780 (ebook)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • 1 Imperialism, Technology, and Tropical Economies (page 3)
    • Technologies and Western-Tropical Relations
    • The Transfer Process
    • The Setting and the Argument
    • Notes
  • 2 Ships and Shipping (page 18)
    • 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 (page 49)
    • 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 Network (page 97)
    • 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 (page 145)
    • Hong Kong Water
    • Calcutta Sewage and Sanitation
    • Dakar and the Plague
    • Notes
  • 6 Hydraulic Imperialism in India and Egypt (page 171)
    • 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 (page 209)
    • Tropical Crops from Plunder to Science
    • Plant Transfers and the British Botanic Empire
    • Agricultural Research in the British Tropics
    • Science and Agriculture in the Dutch East Indies
    • Tropical Botany in France
    • Botany and Plantations in the French Empire
    • Cinchona
    • Sugar Cane
    • Rubber
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • 8 Mining and Metallurgy (page 259)
    • Malayan Tin and Chinese Technology in the Nineteenth Century
    • The Western Takeover of Malayan Tin
    • Opening the African Copperbelt
    • Katanga Copper, 1911-40
    • Iron and Steel in India: The Demand Side
    • Indian Iron before 1914
    • Background of the Indian Steel Industry
    • The Tata Iron and Steel Company
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • 9 Technical Education (page 304)
    • Technical Education in Egypt
    • Vocational Education in West Africa
    • Technical Education in India: Demand and Supply
    • The Politics of Technical Education in India
    • Foreign Study and Independent Schools
    • Technical Education after World War I
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • 10 Experts and Enterprises (page 352)
    • The Smallholders
    • The Experts
    • The Cotton Mills
    • Indian Shipping and Shipbuilding
    • Indianizing the Steel Industry
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Technology Transfer and Colonial Politics (page 379)
  • Bibliographical Essay (page 385)
  • Index (page 391)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
IJAHS 22.4 (1989): 734 http://www.jstor.org/stable/219070
TC 30.1 (Jan. 1989): 166-167 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3105461
JAS 47.4 (Nov. 1988): 838-839 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2057860
JEL 27.3 (Sep. 1989): 1179-1180 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2726791
AEH 18 (1989): 186-187 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3601798
AAAPSS 528 (Jul. 1993): 171-172 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1047799
EHR 43.1 (Feb. 1990): 146 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2596527
AHR 94.4 (Oct. 1989): 1064 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1906618
JAFH 30.3 (1989): 515-516 http://www.jstor.org/stable/182937
BHR 62.4 (Winter. 1988): 740-741 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3115649
ENHR 1o7.422 (Jan. 1992): 242-249 http://www.jstor.org/stable/575809
IHR 11.3 (Aug. 1989): 555-557 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40106061
ISIS 81.1 (Mar. 1990): 93 http://www.jstor.org/stable/234097
HSPBS 20.2 (1990): 407-422 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27757648
HZ 253.2 (Oct. 1991): 408-409 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27627780
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