European University Institute Library

Europeans globalizing, mapping, exploiting, exchanging, Maria Paula Diogo and Dirk van Laak

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-334) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Europeans globalizing

bibliography

918931793

Maria Paula Diogo and Dirk van Laak

Making Europe: Technology and transformations, 1850-2000

mapping, exploiting, exchanging

Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn transformed Europeans. Europeans mapped, they exploited, and they exchanged - their interactions ranged from technological and biological genocide to treaties of cooperation and the construction of elaborate colonial infrastructures. Quite aside from the enormous variety of political settings, cultures and colonial programs, interrelations created dependencies on both sides. Cultural transfers were rarely unidirectional, and often a kind of Pidgin-knowledge emerged, a hybrid fusion of European and local knowledge and skills. As observers have rightly pointed out, Europe played both the role of 'Prometheus unbound' and the 'Sorcerer's apprentice'. --, Provided by publisher

Introduction -- Europeans mapping & being mapped -- Europe's significant others -- Wars & peace at home & abroad -- Scrambling for Eurafrica: Resources & axes of infrastructure -- From the Raj to the Yellow Peril -- A new world & the collapse of colonialism -- The reconstruction period