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001 2009019957
003 DLC
005 20100709090354.0
008 090514s2010 njuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009019957
020 $a9780691139333 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0691139334 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn318874692
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dC#P$dVVC$dCDX$dHEBIS$dEUM$dDLC
050 00 $aJC359$b.H389 2010
082 00 $a325/.3209$222
100 1 $aHeadrick, Daniel R.
245 10 $aPower over peoples :$btechnology, environments, and Western imperialism, 1400 to the present /$cDaniel R. Headrick.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2010.
300 $ax, 400 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aThe Princeton economic history of the Western world
505 0 $aThe discovery of the oceans, to 1779 -- Eastern ocean empires, 1497-1700 -- Horses, diseases, and the conquest of the Americas, 1492-1849 -- The limits of the old imperialism: Africa and Asia to 1859 -- Steamboat imperialism, 1807-1898 -- Health, medicine, and the new imperialism, 1830-1914 -- Weapons and colonial wars, 1830-1914 -- The age of air control, 1911-1936 -- The decline of air control, 1946-2007.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aIn 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.
650 0 $aImperialism$xHistory.
650 0 $aTechnology$xHistory.
650 0 $aMilitary weapons$xHistory.