The Shock of the Old
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===Roger D. Connor, Spring , 2012=== | ===Roger D. Connor, Spring , 2012=== | ||
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Warwick Anderson. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 355. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95.
Summary
Chapters: Significance; Time; Production; Maintenance; Nations; War; Killing; Invention.
Edgerton surveys twentieth century technology in the context of a trans-national "use-centered" (or "use-based") history. He positions this approach as a means of refuting the "assumption that national innovation determines national success."
