Power over peoples : technology, environments, and Western imperialism, 1400 to the present /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Headrick, Daniel R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Colección:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Temas:
Imperialism > History.
Technology > History.
Military weapons > History.
Impérialisme > Histoire.
Technologie > Histoire.
Armes de guerre > Histoire.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Imperialism
Military weapons
Technology
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The discovery of the oceans, to 1779
  • Eastern ocean empires, 1497-1700
  • Horses, diseases, and the conquest of the Americas, 1492-1849
  • The limits of the old imperialism: Africa and Asia to 1859
  • Steamboat imperialism, 1807-1898
  • Health, medicine, and the new imperialism, 1830-1914
  • Weapons and colonial wars, 1830-1914
  • The age of air control, 1911-1936
  • The decline of air control, 1946-2007.

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