Steamboats on the Indus the limits of western technological superiority in South Asia
Two forms of water-transport competed for supremacy on the Indus and its tributaries in the middle of the nineteenth century: the local country boats and the steamboats imported by the British. Steamboats on the Indus shows that the received wisdom-the 'Technology and Imperialism' school-i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi, India
Oxford University Press
2014
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| Summary: | Two forms of water-transport competed for supremacy on the Indus and its tributaries in the middle of the nineteenth century: the local country boats and the steamboats imported by the British. Steamboats on the Indus shows that the received wisdom-the 'Technology and Imperialism' school-is wrong to assume that Westerm machines destroyed indigenous techniques wherever they came into competition. Traditional technology could exploit the economic opportunities created by imperialism at lower cost than the most advanced machinery from the West. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 296 pages illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198092199 (hardcover) 9780198092193 (hardcover) |