Tentacles Of Progress

Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195051165
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tentacles of Progress written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Geoffrey L. Herrera
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791468685
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and International Transformation written by Geoffrey L. Herrera and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the interrelation between technology and international politics since the nineteenth century.

Author : William A.T. Logan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030787672
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Technological History of Cold-War India, 1947–⁠1969 written by William A.T. Logan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a technological history of modern India, in particular the Nehruvian development in the context of the Cold War. Through a series of case studies about military modernization, transportation infrastructure, and electric power, it examines how the ideals of autarky and technological indigenization conflicted with the economic and political realities of the Cold War world. Where other studies tend to focus on the political leaders and economists who oversaw development, this book demonstrates how the perspective of the engineers, government bureaucrats, and aid workers informed and ultimately implemented development.

Author : D. Stephen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137325127
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empire of Progress written by D. Stephen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190864710
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humans Versus Nature written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about the ongoing conflict between humanity and the natural environment. Over the past 200,000 years, humans have multiplied and populated the Earth. When they domesticated plants and animals and replaced foraging with agriculture and herding, they depleted natural resources, deforested the land, and caused mass extinctions. But nature has agency too, causing pandemics of plague, smallpox, measles, influenza, and other diseases and a climate change called the Little Ice Age. In recent centuries, industrialization has accelerated extinctions, deforestation, and resource depletion, even in the oceans. Twentieth-century developmentalism and mass consumerism have caused global warming and other climate changes. Environmental movements have argued for the need to mitigate the negative consequences of technological and economic change. The future of humanity and the Earth depends on choices between achieving a sustainable balance between humans and nature, carrying on as before, or learning to manage the biosphere. environment, mass extinction, domestication, agriculture, pandemic, industrialization, developmentalism, consumerism, global warming"--

Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691154325
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Over Peoples written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Bellamy Foster
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673989
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vulnerable Planet written by John Bellamy Foster and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . " --Contemporary Sociology "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . " --Dollars and Sense "Has the potential to be a political bombshell in radical circles around the world." --Environmental Action The Vulnerable Planet has won respect as the best single-volume introduction to the global economic crisis. With impressive historical and economic detail, ranging from the Industrial Revolution to modern imperialism, The Vulnerable Planet explores the reasons why a global economic system geared toward private profit has spelled vulnerability for the earth's fragile natural environment. Rejecting both individualistic solutions and policies that tinker at the margins, John Bellamy Foster calls for a fundamental reorganization of production on a social basis so as to make possible a sustainable and ecological economy. This revised edition includes a new afterword by the author.

Author : Emily S. Rosenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674047214
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World Connecting written by Emily S. Rosenberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era’s defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.

Author : J. Justin Castro
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496212517
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apostle of Progress written by J. Justin Castro and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global progressive movement that thrived during the Mexican Revolution and influenced Mexico’s development during subsequent governments. Engineers and other revolutionary technocrats were the system builders who drew up the blueprints, printed newspapers, implemented reforms, and constructed complexity—people who built modern Mexico with an eye on remedying long-standing problems through social, material, and infrastructural development during a period of revolutionary change. In Apostle of Progress J. Justin Castro examines the life of Modesto C. Rolland, a revolutionary propagandist and a prominent figure in the development of Mexico, to gain a better understanding of the role engineers played in creating revolution-era policies and the reconstruction of the Mexican nation. Rolland influenced Mexican land reform, petroleum development, stadium construction, port advancements, radio broadcasting, and experiments in political economy. In the telling of Rolland’s story, Castro offers a captivating account of the Mexican Revolution and the influence of global progressivism on the development of twentieth-century Mexico.

Author : Jacob Norris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199669368
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land of Progress written by Jacob Norris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Palestine in the early twentieth century that takes a step back from the intricacies of the Arab-Zionist conflict, focusing instead on the country's position within the broader history of empire and anti-colonial resistance.