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by: Daniel R. Headrick
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.926
EAN: 9780195051162
ISBN: 0195051165
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: March 10, 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 909522
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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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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