It takes the average reader 6 hours and 53 minutes to read The Tentacles of Progress by Daniel R. Headrick
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This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the most important technologies--shipping and railways, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany and plantation agriculture, irrigation, and mining and metallurgy--Headrick provides a new perspective on colonial economic history and reopens the debate on the roots of...
The Tentacles of Progress by Daniel R. Headrick is 405 pages long, and a total of 103,275 words.
This makes it 137% the length of the average book. It also has 126% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 24 minutes to read The Tentacles of Progress aloud.
The Tentacles of Progress is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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