Meeting Technology's Advance - Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
Release date:	October 1997
First published:	September 2000
Authors:	James Z. Gao
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Library binding
Pages:	218
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-30095-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Transport industries > Railway transport industries > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-313-30095-X
Barcode:	9780313300950

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