The Tentacles of Progress
Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
Published in December 1988
416 pages
978-0-19-802178-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Revised ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
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4 maps
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23,16 MB
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978-0-19-802178-0 (9780198021780)
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Smallholders
- The Experts
- The Cotton Mills
- Indian Shipping and Shipbuilding
- Indianizing the Steel Industry
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 11 Technology Transfer and Colonial Politics
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
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