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Tables of Contents for The Tentacles of Progress
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Imperialism, Technology, and Tropical Economies
3
15
Technologies and Western-Tropical Relations
The Transfer Process
The Setting and the Argument
Notes
Ships and Shipping
18
31
Characteristics of World Shipping
Steamships before 1869
The Suez Canal
Shipbuilding after 1869
Tropical Harbors
The New Organization of Shipping
The Major Shipping Companies
The Causes of British Supremacy
Notes
The Railways of India
49
48
Origins of the Indian Railways
Building the Trunk Lines (1853-71)
The Era of State Construction (1870-79)
The New Guarantee Period (1880-1914)
World War I and After (1914-47)
The Locomotive Industry
Consequences and Comparisons
Notes
The Imperial Telecommunications Networks
97
48
Submarine Telegraph Cables, 1850-70
Cable Technology to 1914
Submarine Cables and the British Empire, 1870-1914
The French Cable Network, 1856-95
British Abuses and French Reactions, 1884-1914
The Indian Telegraphs
French Colonial Posts and Telegraphs
Colonial Wireless Networks to 1918
British Wireless after 1918
French Wireless after 1918
Notes
Cities, Sanitation, and Segregation
145
26
Hong Kong Water
Calcutta Sewage and Sanitation
Dakar and the Plague
Notes
Hydraulic Imperialism in India and Egypt
171
38
Precolonial Irrigation and British Restorations to 1837
The Classic Era of Indian Irrigation, 1838-54
The Era of Private Irrigation, 1854-69
Productive and Protective Works, 1866-98
The Indian Irrigation Commission and After, 1897-1940
Egypt, the Nile, and the British
Conclusion
Notes
Economic Botany and Tropical Plantations
209
50
Tropical Crops from Plunder to Science
Plant Transfers and the British Botanic Empire
Agricultural Research in the British Tropics
Science and Agriculture in the Dutch East Indies
Tropical Botany in France
Botany and Plantations in the French Empire
Cinchona
Sugar Cane
Rubber
Conclusion
Notes
Mining and Metallurgy
259
45
Malayan Tin and Chinese Technology in the Nineteenth Century
The Western Takeover of Malayan Tin
Opening the African Copperbelt
Katanga Copper, 1911-40
Iron and Steel in India: the Demand Side Indian Iron before 1914
Background of the Indian Steel Industry
The Tata Iron and Steel Company
Conclusion
Notes
Technical Education
304
48
Technical Education in Egypt
Vocational Education in West Africa
Technical Education in India: Demand and Supply
The Politics of Technical Education in India
Foreign Study and Independent Schools
Technical Education after World War I
Conclusion
Notes
Experts and Enterprises
352
27
The Smallholders
The Experts
The Cotton Mills
Indian Shipping and Shipbuilding
Indianizing the Steel Industry
Conclusion
Notes
352
27
Technology Transfer and Colonial Politics
379
6
Bibliographical Essay
385
6
Index
391