Power over peoples : technology, environments, and Western imperialism, 1400 to the present / Daniel R. Headrick.
| Author/creator |
Headrick, Daniel R. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010. |
| Description | x, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | The Princeton economic history of the Western world Princeton economic history of the Western world. ^A682933 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009019957 |
| ISBN | 9780691139333 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0691139334 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | JC359 .H398 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |