This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the most important technologies--shipping and railways, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany and plantation agriculture, irrigation, and mining and metallurgy--Headrick provides a new perspective on colonial economic history and reopens the debate on the roots of Asian and African underdevelopment.

From the John Holmes Library collection.

Monographic collection of essays on technology transfer to developing countries - covers research and development, role of universitys in reflecting technological change, transfer of knowhow, energy conservation and solar energy technologys for water treatment in arid zones, self reliance through Innovation, science policy and the role of USSR technical cooperation, etc. Diagrams, flow charts, illustrations, references and statistical tables.