The Tentacles of Progress

The Tentacles of Progress
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.

Technology and International Transformation

Technology and International Transformation
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.

The Empire of Progress

The Empire of Progress
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.

Progress in Invertebrate Zoology

Progress in Invertebrate Zoology
Author: M.S. Mani
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2004
Genre: Invertebrates
ISBN: 9788125008415

This book presents a comprehensive and critical review of recent developments in Invertebrate Zoology. It summarises the results of diverse worldwide research and investigation into all classes of Invertebrates from Protozoa to Echiodermata except insects, and brings together information from scattered and even inaccessible journals and periodicals. Among the Arthropoda, only Crustacea are dealt with. The central concept in this book is that regardless of structural diversity, life is the same everywhere on the earth. While not a textbook in the strict sense of the term, this book should prove indispensable to teachers, students and researchers in colleges and universities.