Name: Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway age (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies) (en Inglés)
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Author: James Zheng Gao
ISBN: 9780313300950

portada Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway age (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Greenwood Press

Autor

James Zheng Gao

Año

1997

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

218

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

031330095x

ISBN13

9780313300950

N° edición

Categorías

Historia de la economía

Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway age (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies) (en Inglés)

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In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress in generating significant social change. His principal concern is with indigenous people whose efforts to meet this technological advance has been neglected or underestimated. Gao shows how different cultural traditions, political situations, and individual interests create an attractive variety of local responses to the challenges and opportunities afforded by technology. He not only describes the final consequences of railway development, but emphasizes the dynamic process by which indigenous people first derived, then gradually lost, most of the gains from modern transport advances. In addition, Gao explores a number of permanent impacts of railways on the two areas, including demographic and structural changes, and divisions of race and class. An intriguing study for researchers and students of imperialism, and Chinese and African history.