The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940 by Daniel R. Headrick

The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940

Daniel R. Headrick

416 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Daniel Headrick, author of Tools of Empire, examines why the massive transfer of Western technology to European colonies did not spark an industrial revolution in those countries. Rather than spurring economic progress, he argues, the transfer of ...

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