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Author | : Daniel R. Headrick |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195051165 |
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.
Author | : Daniel R. Headrick |
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Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Geoffrey L. Herrera |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780791468685 |
Examines the interrelation between technology and international politics since the nineteenth century.
Author | : Daniel R. Headrick |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2000-12-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199881235 |
Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and Revolution. When Information Came of Age argues that the key to the present era lies in understanding the systems developed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to gather, store, transform, display, and communicate information. The book provides a concise and readable survey of the many conceptual developments between 1700 and 1850 and draws connections to leading technologies of today. It documents three breakthroughs in information systems that date to the period: the classification and nomenclature of Linnaeus, the chemical system devised by Lavoisier, and the metric system. It shows how eighteenth-century political arithmeticians and demographers pioneered statistics and graphs as a means for presenting data succinctly and visually. It describes the transformation of cartography from art to science as it incorporated new methods for determining longitude at sea and new data on the measure the arc of the meridian on land. Finally, it looks at the early steps in codifying and transmitting information, including the development of dictionaries, the invention of semaphore telegraphs and naval flag signaling, and the conceptual changes in the use and purpose of postal services. When Information Came of Age shows that like the roots of democracy and industrialization, the foundations of the Information Age were built in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Author | : Daniel R. Headrick |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2012-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691154325 |
In this work, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others.
Author | : Gordon Wagner |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Urban renewal |
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Author | : Robert Wilson |
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Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
ISBN | : 9780890412220 |
Author | : D. Stephen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2013-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137325127 |
This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery.
Author | : Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2009-02-25 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0199713669 |
Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.
Author | : Lloyd Kramer |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0585470936 |
This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures,traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing itsevolution from biblical times to the present. Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the WesternWorld from biblical times to the present day. Provides students with the background to contemporaryhistorical debates and approaches. Serves as a useful reference for researchers andteachers. Includes chapters by 24 leading historians.