Meeting Technology's Advance
Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age
Meeting Technology's Advance
Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age
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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Troubled Beginnings
Resisters and Collaborators
Reaching the Market
Railway Empires
New Order, New Elite
Conclusion
Appendix A: Chronology of Major Chinese Railway Construction
Appendix B: Chronology of Zimbabwean Railway Construction
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Oct 30 1997 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9780313300950 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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