Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:46:42 -0400
Subject: Re: Technology and Empire


Headrick, Daniel R.  1981.  The Tools of Empire, Technology and European 
Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century.  Oxford University Press.

NHB



At 07:09 PM 10/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Perhaps "The Science of Empire" by Zaheer Baber?
>
>D.
>
>
>>From: "Cristina J. Thaut" <ct84153-AT-ltec.net>
>>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>>Subject: Technology and Empire
>>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 18:29:52 -0500
>>
>>Dear List,
>>
>>Apologies in advance for using the list for such a mundane request.  Can
>>anyone suggest texts which explore a relationship between
>>science/technology and empire?  This is a very broad request, I realize.  I
>>am writing a short conference paper on Shakespearean motifs in Star Trek.
>>I'm looking at how the use of magic in _The Tempest_ (Ariel, a colonial
>>subject) shifts to become a use of science and technology in _The Forbidden
>>Planet_ and early ST episodes.  I hope this paper topic blurb will provide
>>some focus to the above request.  In short, I'm not sure what I'm looking
>>for, although I think there may be an imperial motif lurking in both the
>>use of magic and science as subjugated forces.
>>
>>Thanks in advance, Cristi Thaut
>>
>>
>>
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