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Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging
Maria Paula Diogo
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Description for Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging
Hardback. Technology was key to European colonialism. Via technology, Europeans mapped non-European territories - and controlled the flow of people and resources, goods and information. Read stories of technologies introduced and creatively adapted. Discover how globalization as we know it differs from what Europeans once intended. Series: Making Europe. Num Pages: 312 pages, 68 b & w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTQ; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 192. Weight in Grams: 454.
Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn transformed Europeans. Europeans mapped, they exploited, and they exchanged - their interactions ranged from technological and biological genocide to treaties of cooperation and the construction of elaborate colonial infrastructures. Quite aside from the enormous variety of political settings, cultures and colonial programs, interrelations created dependencies on both sides. Cultural transfers were rarely unidirectional, and often a kind of Pidgin-knowledge emerged, ... Read more
Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn transformed Europeans. Europeans mapped, they exploited, and they exchanged - their interactions ranged from technological and biological genocide to treaties of cooperation and the construction of elaborate colonial infrastructures. Quite aside from the enormous variety of political settings, cultures and colonial programs, interrelations created dependencies on both sides. Cultural transfers were rarely unidirectional, and often a kind of Pidgin-knowledge emerged, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Making Europe
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230279636
SKU
V9780230279636
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99-20
About Maria Paula Diogo
Maria Paula Diogo is Full Professor of History of Technology and Engineering at the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon (FCT/NOVA), Portugal, and member of the Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT). She has pioneered the study of Portuguese engineering and engineers in the early 90s and is currently working on engineering and the ... Read more
Reviews for Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging
Europeans Globalizing is part of an ambitious research agenda that questions Europe's history through a transnational history of technology. ... the range and scope of the book as well as the thoughtfulness with which the authors discuss their disparate topics are impressive. ... the transnational approach provides a refreshing perspective on Europe's identity and connections to the world. It is ... Read more