Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) - Softcover

Buch 12 von 55: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World

Headrick, Daniel R.

 
9780691154329: Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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ISBN 10: 0691154325 ISBN 13: 9780691154329
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2012

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Power over Peoples examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ventured down the coast of Africa in the 1430s to America's conflicts in the Middle East today. Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies bombs and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others. Breathtaking in scope, Power over Peoples is a revealing history of technological innovation, its promise and limitations, and its central role in the rise and fall of empire.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel R. Headrick is professor emeritus of social science and history at Roosevelt University. His books include The Tools of Empire and The Earth and Its Peoples.

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"This is a major contribution to historical studies, as well as the study of technological change and economic history. Headrick asks a set of questions that are infrequently discussed, and analyzes them in an interesting way. This will be an important and widely cited book."--Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691154325
ISBN 13 
9780691154329
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Anzahl der Seiten
416
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