Suvobrata Sarkar

Let There Be Light

Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880-1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance, with the focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781108835985
• ISBN-10: 1108835988
• Artikelnr.: 59258040

Autorenporträt

Suvobrata Sarkar teaches at the Department of History, University of Burdwan, India. His research looks at the social history of technology in colonial India. He is also the recipient of the Maurice Daumas Prize 2019 awarded by the International Committee for the History of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

List of abbreviations
List of figures
Preface
Introduction
1. Technical knowledge and its institutes
2. Entrepreneurship, industry and technology
3. Electrification: the shaping of a technology
4. Domesticating electricity
5. Assimilation of technological ideas
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.