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Author: Casper Andersen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1317323025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing a wide range of primary sources that include correspondence, diaries, technical reports, institutional minutes and periodicals, Andersen reconstructs the networks and activities of Britain’s engineers while focusing on London as a centre of imperial expansion.
Author: Annie Tindley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-30
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1137597984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the nature of design as a form of communication within and across Britain and its empire in the long nineteenth century. In this period, Britain had developed from the world’s first industrial nation into the ‘Workshop of the World’ but how were technological innovations translated and communicated across the imperial territories? How were designs turned into reality? This book explores these themes, incorporating archival case study technologies such as trains, sugar manufacture and agricultural technologies. Using a four-part framework we firstly examine the identification of innovation opportunities and how these translated to engineering specifications. The realization of conceptual designs through collaboration and their subsequent manufacture and distribution as finished products are then reviewed. Using the authors’ expertise in the fields of historical and design engineering, this study contributes real-world case studies to design theory.
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1351112538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Author: Andrew Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 2080
ISBN-13: 1351217488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection makes available rare sources on the aims, functions and effects of British administration in Africa. Topics examined include: land and urban administration, law and jurisprudence, taxation and administration of natural resources.
Author: Aimée Fox-Godden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1107190797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first institutional examination of the British army's learning and innovation process during the First World War.
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 2144
ISBN-13: 1351112260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Author: Casper Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1351543911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection makes available rare sources on the aims, functions and effects of British administration in Africa. Topics examined include: land and urban administration, law and jurisprudence, taxation and administration of natural resources.
Author: Fredrik Meiton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0520968484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElectricity is an integral part of everyday life—so integral that we rarely think of it as political. In Electrical Palestine, Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like electrical power, moves through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. At the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict, both kinds of power were circulated through the electric grid that was built by the Zionist engineer Pinhas Rutenberg in the period of British rule from 1917 to 1948. Drawing on new sources in Arabic, Hebrew, and several European languages, Electrical Palestine charts a story of rapid and uneven development that was greatly influenced by the electric grid and set the stage for the conflict between Arabs and Jews. Electrification, Meiton shows, was a critical element of Zionist state building. The outcome in 1948, therefore, of Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness was the result of a logic that was profoundly conditioned by the power system, a logic that has continued to shape the area until today.
Author: Kristin L. Hoganson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2020-01-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1478007435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia and East Africa to the Caribbean. With case studies ranging from the 1830s to the late twentieth century, the contributors address topics including diplomacy, governance, anticolonialism, labor, immigration, medicine, religion, and race. Their transimperial approach—whether exemplified in examinations of U.S. steel corporations partnering with British imperialists to build the Ugandan railway or the U.S. reliance on other empires in its governance of the Philippines—transcends histories of interimperial rivalries and conflicts. In so doing, the contributors illuminate the power dynamics of seemingly transnational histories and the imperial origins of contemporary globality. Contributors. Ikuko Asaka, Oliver Charbonneau, Genevieve Clutario, Anne L. Foster, Julian Go, Michel Gobat, Julie Greene, Kristin L. Hoganson, Margaret D. Jacobs, Moon-Ho Jung, Marc-William Palen, Nicole M. Phelps, Jay Sexton, John Soluri, Stephen Tuffnell
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1351222090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
