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Power over peoples : technology, environments, and Western imperialism, 1400 to the present
In this work, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others.
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Sleeping Sickness Epidemics and Colonial Responses in East and Central Africa, 1900–1940
According to John Ford, a specialist in the tsetse fly problem writing in the 1960s, Africans before the colonial era had established a rough equilibrium between two ecosystems, the human and domestic on the one hand, and the natural and wild on the other. [...]the success of the colonial medical authorities in fighting sleeping sickness before 1940 reversed the decline in the health of Africans in the preceding 50 years.
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Climate change: Debate and reality
The debate about climate change has been raging for over 30 years. Is the climate really changing? If it is, are the changes caused by human actions? If they are, can anything be done about it? And, if so, should anything be done? On each of these questions, opinions clash. On one side are those who would say yes to all four questions. Among them are almost all climate scientists, most of the world's governments and a large part of the educated public. On the other side are the current United States Government, most oil, gas and coal corporations, and most conservative politicians and their supporters, especially in the United States. It cannot be denied that the debate has caused confusion in the mind of the public-at least in the United States-and has helped prevent effective measures to mitigate global warming. In this essay, however, I argue that the impact of the debate pales in comparison to that of two other factors: developmentalism, the glorification of economic growth; and consumerism, the modern energy-intensive way of life. While the causes of the failure to mitigate global warming can be found in every country, the case of China is particularly glaring.
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Humans versus nature : a global environmental history
\"This book is about the ongoing conflict between humanity and the natural environment. Over the past 200,000 years, humans have multiplied and populated the Earth. When they domesticated plants and animals and replaced foraging with agriculture and herding, they depleted natural resources, deforested the land, and caused mass extinctions. But nature has agency too, causing pandemics of plague, smallpox, measles, influenza, and other diseases and a climate change called the Little Ice Age. In recent centuries, industrialization has accelerated extinctions, deforestation, and resource depletion, even in the oceans. Twentieth-century developmentalism and mass consumerism have caused global warming and other climate changes. Environmental movements have argued for the need to mitigate the negative consequences of technological and economic change. The future of humanity and the Earth depends on choices between achieving a sustainable balance between humans and nature, carrying on as before, or learning to manage the biosphere. environment, mass extinction, domestication, agriculture, pandemic, industrialization, developmentalism, consumerism, global warming\"-- Provided by publisher.
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When information came of age
Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process.Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and Revolution.
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تاريخ التكنولوجيا في العالم
يتناول الكتاب كيفية تسخير التكنولوجيا في الأزمنة القديمة والحديثة كما يلقي نظرة عامة عن حوادث العالم وتطور مجريات الأحداث عبر التاريخ محليا وعالميا وكيف أن العقود الستة التي تلت الحرب العالمية الثانية كانت مدهشة من حيث الابتكارات التقنية التي تلت الحرب ويتضمن الكتاب ثمانية فصول تتناول ما يلي التكنولوجيا في العصر الحجري، حضارات الطاقة المائية، الحديد والجياد والإمبراطوريات، ثورات العصر ما بعد الكلاسيكي والقرون الوسطى، عصر التبادلات الدولية، الثورة الصناعية الأولى، تسـارع وتيرة التغيير، نحو عالم ما بعد الصناعة.
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The tentacles of progress : technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940
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.
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