Edizione	[1st ed. 2015.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (IX, 269 p.)
Disciplina	909/.0971241
Collana	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Soggetto topico	Civilization—History Imperialism Social history World history Sociology Community psychology Environmental psychology Cultural History Imperialism and Colonialism Social History World History, Global and Transnational History Sociology, general Community and Environmental Psychology
ISBN	1-137-46587-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction thinking with deviance / Will Jackson and Emily Manktelow -- From pawns to players : rewriting the lives of three indigenous go-betweens / Kate Fullagar -- "Washing the blackmoor white" : interracial intimacy and coloured women's agency in Jamaica / Meleisa Ono-George -- "The starched boundaries of civilization" : sympathetic allegiance and the subversive politics of affect in colonial India / Andrew J. May -- "Base and wicked characters " : European island dwellers in the western Pacific, 1788-1850 / Malcolm Campbell -- Thinking with gossip : deviance, rumour and reputation in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society / Emily J. Manktelow -- Producing and managing deviance in the disabled colonial self : John Kitto, the deaf traveller / Esme Cleall -- Exporting and repatriating the colonial insane : New Zealand before the First World War / Angela McCarthy -- Not seeking certain proof : interracial sex and archival haze in high-imperial Natal / Will Jackson -- Devious documents : corruption and paperwork in colonial Burma c.1900 / Jonathan Saha -- Empire and sexual deviance : debating white woman's prostitution in early 20th century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia / Ushehwedi Kufakurinani -- R. V. Mrs Utam Singh : race, gender and deviance in a Kenyan murder case, 1949-51 / Stacey Hynd.
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Autore	Headrick Daniel R
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (416 p. ) : maps, tables, graph
Disciplina	338.9/26
Soggetto topico	Imperialism - History Technology transfer - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-44971-3 0-19-802178-X 1-60129-673-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458523203321

Autore	Burton Antoinette M. <1961->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (337 p.)
Disciplina	325/.320941
Soggetto topico	Imperialism - History - 19th century Imperialism - History - 20th century Anti-imperialist movements - Great Britain - History - 19th century Anti-imperialist movements - Great Britain - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-993661-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction : The troubled ground of empire -- Subject to setback : Pax Britannica and the question of military victory -- Subject to interruption : Economic protest and the limits of imperial order -- Subject to insurgency : Enemies of empire and the challenge to governability -- Epilogue: Toward a minority history of British imperialism.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461155403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (800 p.)
Disciplina	909/.0971241
Altri autori (Persone)	BrownJudith M LouisWilliam Roger <1936-> LowAlaine M
Collana	Oxford history of the British Empire
Soggetto topico	Imperialism - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-154239-3 1-280-44519-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. The British Empire in the Edwardian Era; 3. A Third British Empire? The Dominion Idea in Imperial Politics; 4. The Metropolitan Economics of Empire; 5. The British Empire and the Great War, 1914-1918; 6. Ireland and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1900-1948; 7. Migrants and Settlers; 8. Critics of Empire in Britain; 9. The Popular Culture of Empire in Britain; 10. Colonial Rule; 11. Bureaucracy and 'Trusteeship' in the Colonial Empire 12. 'Deceptive Might': Imperial Defence and Security, 1900-196813. The Second World War; 14. The Dissolution of the British Empire; 15. Imperialism and After: The Economy of the Empire on the Periphery; 16. Gender in the British Empire; 17. The British Empire and the Muslim World; 18. India; 19. Ceylon; 20. Imperialism and Nationalism in South-East Asia; 21. Britain's Informal Empire in the Middle East; 22. West Africa; 23. East Africa; 24. Southern Africa; 25. Canada, the North Atlantic Triangle, and the Empire; 26. The British Caribbean from Demobilization to Constitutional Decolonization 27. Latin America28. China; 29. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands; 30. Commonwealth Legacy; 31. Epilogue; Chronology; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465571803321

Autore	Headrick Daniel R
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1988
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (x, 405 pages) : maps, tables, graph
Disciplina	338.9/26
Soggetto topico	Imperialism - History Technology transfer - History
ISBN	0-19-028149-9 1-280-44971-3 0-19-802178-X 1-60129-673-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Contents -- 1 Imperialism, Technology, and Tropical Economies -- Technologies and Western-Tropical Relations -- The Transfer Process -- The Setting and the Argument -- Notes -- 2 Ships and Shipping -- Characteristics of World Shipping -- Steamships before 1869 -- The Suez Canal -- Shipbuilding after 1869 -- Tropical Harbors -- The New Organization of Shipping -- The Major Shipping Companies -- The Causes of British Supremacy -- Notes -- 3 The Railways of India -- Origins of the Indian Railways -- Building the Trunk Lines (1853-71) -- The Era of State Construction (1870-79) -- The New Guarantee Period (1880-1914) -- World War I and After (1914-47) -- The Locomotive Industry -- Consequences and Comparisons -- Notes -- 4 The Imperial Telecommunications Networks -- Submarine Telegraph Cables, 1850-70 -- Cable Technology to 1914 -- Submarine Cables and the British Empire, 1870-1914 -- The French Cable Network, 1856-95 -- British Abuses and French Reactions, 1884-1914 -- The Indian Telegraphs -- French Colonial Posts and Telegraphs -- Colonial Wireless Networks to 1918 -- British Wireless after 1918 -- French Wireless after 1918 -- Notes -- 5 Cities, Sanitation, and Segregation -- Hong Kong Water -- Calcutta Sewage and Sanitation -- Dakar and the Plague -- Notes -- 6 Hydraulic Imperialism in India and Egypt -- Precolonial Irrigation and British Restorations to 1837 -- The Classic Era of Indian Irrigation, 1838-54 -- The Era of Private Irrigation, 1854-69 -- Productive and Protective Works, 1866-98 -- The Indian Irrigation Commission and After, 1897-1940 -- Egypt, the Nile, and the British -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Economic Botany and Tropical Plantations -- Tropical Crops from Plunder to Science -- Plant Transfers and the British Botanic Empire -- Agricultural Research in the British Tropics. Science and Agriculture in the Dutch East Indies -- Tropical Botany in France -- Botany and Plantations in the French Empire -- Cinchona -- Sugar Cane -- Rubber -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Mining and Metallurgy -- Malayan Tin and Chinese Technology in the Nineteenth Century -- The Western Takeover of Malayan Tin -- Opening the African Copperbelt -- Katanga Copper, 1911-40 -- Iron and Steel in India: the Demand Side -- Indian Iron before 1914 -- Background of the Indian Steel Industry -- The Tata Iron and Steel Company -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Technical Education -- Technical Education in Egypt -- Vocational Education in West Africa -- Technical Education in India: Demand and Supply -- The Politics of Technical Education in India -- Foreign Study and Independent Schools -- Technical Education after World War I -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Experts and Enterprises -- The Smallholders -- The Experts -- The Cotton Mills -- Indian Shipping and Shipbuilding -- Indianizing the Steel Industry -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 Technology Transfer and Colonial Politics -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Altri titoli varianti	Technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940
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