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Power over peoples: technology, environments, and Western imperialism, 1400 to the present

Daniel R Headrick
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  • Introduction Imperialism and Technology (page 1)
  • Chpater 1 The Discovery of the Oceans, to 1779 (page 11)
  • Chapter 2 Eastern Ocean Empires, 1497-1700 (page 59)
  • Chapter 3 Horses, Diseases, and the Conquest of the Americas, 1492-1849 (page 95)
  • Chapter 4 The Limits of the Old Imperialism: Africa and Asia to 1859 (page 139)
  • Chapter 5 Steamboat Imperialism, 1807-1898 (page 177)
  • Chapter 6 Health, Medicine, and the New Imperialism, 1830-1914 (page 226)
  • Chapter 7 Weapons and Colonial Wars, 1830-1914 (page 257)
  • Chapter 8 The Age of Air Control, 1911-1936 (page 302)
  • Chapter 9 The Decline of Air Control, 1946-2007 (page 334)
  • Conclusion Technology and Imperialism Redux (page 370)
  • For Further Reading (page 375)
  • Index (page 381)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JEI 46.1 (Mar. 2012): 254-256 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23264948
Citable Link
Published: c2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691154329 (paper)
  • 9781400833597 (ebook)
  • 9780691139333 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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