ISBN:
9780195028317
,
9780195028324
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
X, 221 S.
,
22 cm
DDC:
303.4/83/09034
Schlagwort(e):
Technology History
;
Imperialism History
;
Technik
;
Technikgeschichte
;
Imperialismus
;
Europa
;
Geschichte, 19. Jh.
;
Europa
;
Imperialismus
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Kurzfassung:
Introduction : Technology, imperialism, and history -- Part 1 : Steamboats and quinine, tools of penetration. Secret gunboats of the East India Company -- The Nemesis in China -- Malaria, quinine, and the penetration of Africa -- Part 2 : Guns and conquests. Weapons and colonial wars of the early nineteenth century -- The breechloader revolution -- African arms -- Arms gap and colonial confrontations -- Part 3 : The communications revolution. Steam and the overland route to India -- The emergence of efficient steamships -- The Suez Canal -- The submarine cable -- The global thalassocracies -- The railroads of India -- African transportation : dreams and realities -- The legacy of technological imperialism
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Introduction : Technology, imperialism, and history -- Part 1 : Steamboats and quinine, tools of penetration. Secret gunboats of the East India Company -- The Nemesis in China -- Malaria, quinine, and the penetration of Africa -- Part 2 : Guns and conquests. Weapons and colonial wars of the early nineteenth century -- The breechloader revolution -- African arms -- Arms gap and colonial confrontations -- Part 3 : The communications revolution. Steam and the overland route to India -- The emergence of efficient steamships -- The Suez Canal -- The submarine cable -- The global thalassocracies -- The railroads of India -- African transportation : dreams and realities -- The legacy of technological imperialism.
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