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Author: James Z. Gao
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 031330095X

Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies)

In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress in generating significant social change. Get Meeting Technology's Advance computer books for free.
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 n Check Meeting Technology's Advance our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.