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

Power over peoples : technology, environments, and Western imperialism, 1400 to the present / Daniel R. Headrick.

Author/creator	Headrick, Daniel R.
Other author/creator	American Council of Learned Societies.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
Description	x, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
Subject(s)	Imperialism--History. Technology--History. Military weapons--History.

Series	The Princeton economic history of the Western world
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.
Summary	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009019957
ISBN	9780691139333 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0691139334 (cloth : alk. paper)

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