Daniel R. Headrick

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According to Wikipedia, Daniel R. Headrick is an American historian and writer who specializes in the history of international relations, technology, and the environment. Biography Daniel R. Headrick was born on August 2, 1941, in Bay Shore, N.Y., USA. He attended secondary school in Germany and France and university in Spain, Italy, and the United States. He obtained a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College in 1962, an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1964, and a PhD in history from Princeton University in 1971 with a thesis on "The Spanish Army, 1868-1898 : Structure, Function and Politics".

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Daniel R. Headrick's Published Works

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The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (1991) (1998)
Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (1990) (613)
The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (1982) (605)
Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (1987) (557)
The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940 (1989) (286)
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (2014) (199)
When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850 (2000) (169)
The Tools of Imperialism: Technology and the Expansion of European Colonial Empires in the Nineteenth Century (1979) (64)
Technology: A World History (2009) (63)
A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present (review) (2001) (57)
Submarine Telegraph Cables: Business and Politics, 1838–1939 (2001) (57)
The tools of empire (1981) (53)
The Role of Technology in the African Past (1983) (47)
Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. By Theodore M. Porter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 310 (1996) (47)
Sleeping Sickness Epidemics and Colonial Responses in East and Central Africa, 1900–1940 (2014) (45)
Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present (2009) (40)
The invisible weapon (1991) (36)
The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin. (1994) (31)
Spying without Spies: Origins of America’s Secret Nuclear Surveillance System by Charles A. Ziegler, David Jacobson (1995) (29)
Botany, Chemistry, and Tropical Development (2005) (23)
“Lord Cromer’s Shadow”: Political Anglo-Saxonism and the Egyptian Protectorate as a Model in the American Philippines (2016) (20)
A double-edged sword: communications and imperial control in British India (2010) (19)
THE INVISIBLE WEAPON Telecommunications and (1991) (19)
Tools of War: Instruments, Ideas, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445-1871 (1991) (16)
Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815. By Ken Alder. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 476. $59.50. (1997) (14)
Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens.Lucile H. Brockway (1981) (9)
Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission (review) (2007) (9)
Telegraphic Imperialism: Crisis and Panic in the Indian Empire, c. 1830 (review) (2012) (7)
Mechanization and Maize: Agriculture and the Politics of Technology Transfer in East Africa (1989) (7)
4D Printing Transforms Product Design (2015) (6)
The Ethics and Law of Robots (2014) (6)
Gutta-Percha: A Case of Resource Depletion and International Rivalry (1987) (6)
Converging Innovations Nourish Growth of Indoor Farming (2019) (4)
Inventing the Internet. By Janet Abbate. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. viii + 264 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-262-01172-7 (2000) (4)
Strategic and Military Aspects of Submarine Telegraph Cables, 1851–1945 (2009) (3)
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene (2016) (3)
Shortwave radio and its impact on international telecommunications between the wars (1994) (3)
Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867 1914 and their Lasting Impact By Vaclav Smil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vi + 350. ISBN 0 19 516874 7 (2006) (3)
Advanced Manufacturing: Rethinking How Things Get Made (2014) (3)
The Construction Industry Goes Digital (2017) (3)
The History of the Near Eastern Telegraphs Before the First World War (2011) (2)
REVIEW OF SCHOONOVER, UNCLE SAM'S WAR OF 1898 AND THE ORIGINS OF GLOBALIZATION (2004) (2)
Electric Utilities and Energy Market Innovations (2015) (2)
The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (review) (1999) (1)
AI-Powered Fintech Turns Data into New Business (2019) (1)
Public-Private Relations in International Telecommunications Before World War II (1995) (1)
Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World (review) (2004) (1)
Spain and the Revolutions of 1848 (1976) (1)
Rethinking Mealtime for 9 Billion (2016) (1)
The Immigration of Innovation (2016) (1)
The New World History: A Teacher's Companion (review) (2002) (1)
International Communication: History (2001) (1)
The High-Performance Home: Critical Node for Grid Resiliency? (2016) (1)
The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE (2012) (1)
Technology, Engineering, and Science (2011) (1)
Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy (review) (2005) (1)
Railways and International Politics: Paths of Empire, 1848-1945 (review) (2007) (1)
Climate change: Debate and reality (2019) (1)
Robert J. Blyth. The Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858–1947. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. x, 270. $72.00 (2004) (0)
The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream (review) (2002) (0)
Chapter 3. Horses, Diseases, and the Conquest of the Americas, 1492–1849 (2009) (0)
Innovation for the Developing World (2013) (0)
Book Review (1998) (0)
Chapter 1. The Discovery of the Oceans, to 1779 (2009) (0)
Telecommunications and Empire. By Jill Hills. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii + 291 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978–0–252–03258–5 (2008) (0)
Structural Engineering Advances When Buildings Fall (2018) (0)
Historiography of technology and innovation (2015) (0)
The Quest for Technical Knowledge: Bengal in the Nineteenth Century by Suvobrata Sarkar (review) (2013) (0)
Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930. By Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xx + 429 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-822-33912-0 (2008) (0)
China Races to Automate While Learning to Innovate (2018) (0)
Global Warming, the Ruddiman Thesis, and the Little Ice Age (2016) (0)
Reviews of Books (2000) (0)
Why America Is Not a New Rome (review) (2011) (0)
FURTHER READING (2009) (0)
Simone M. Müller. Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks. (2017) (0)
Transforming Information : The Origin Of Statistics (2001) (0)
The Enduring Impact of M&A on Innovation (2020) (0)
Giacomo Macola. The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics. (2018) (0)
Maria Paula Diogo & Dirk Van Laak, Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging. (2017) (0)
Imperialism and Colonialism: Essays on the History of European Expansion, and: Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism (review) (2005) (0)
Bristish technology in India and Latin America: domination and dependence (1993) (0)
Can 3D Printing Save 2D (2016) (0)
Presidential Medal of Freedom Awarded to Pioneering Women in Computer Science (2017) (0)
Friendly Office Printers Present Security Threats (2017) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858-1947 Robert J. Blyth (2004) (0)
Transportation and communication, 1750 to the present (2015) (0)
Global Mining at the Edge of Transformation (2015) (0)
Chapter 9. The Decline of Air Control, 1946–2007 (2009) (0)
A World Connecting: 1870–1945 ed. by Emily S. Rosenberg (review) (2013) (0)
The plague and the population of Europe in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages (2022) (0)
Reviews of Books (1980) (0)
Gordon Jackson and David M. Williams, eds. Shipping, Technology, and Imperialism: Papers Presented to the Third British-Dutch Maritime History Conference. Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press; dist. by Ashgate Publishing Co., Brookfield, Vt. 1996. Pp. xiv, 285. $76.95. ISBN 1-85928-344-6. (1998) (0)
The Undersea Network by Nicole Starosielski (review) (2016) (0)
General and Miscellaneous (1995) (0)
Developing Regions Reshaping Global Innovation Landscape (2017) (0)
Innovation Moves Uptown (2016) (0)
Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaption, and Adoption ed. by Michael Adas (1998) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: David Paull Nickles.UNDER THE WIRE: HOW THE TELEGRAPH CHANGED DIPLOMACY. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. (2005) (0)
Displaying Information Maps and Graphs (2001) (0)
Shipping, Technology, and Imperialism: Papers Presented to the Third British-Dutch Maritime History Conference (1998) (0)
British Maritime Communications and Mail Subsidies in the Nineteenth Century (2010) (0)
The gunpowder age: China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history By Tonio Andrade. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. x+432. 25 b/w illustrations, 10 maps. Hardback £32.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-13597-7; paperback £19.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-17814-1. (2017) (0)
As Driverless Tech Advances, Engineers Keep Drivers in Control (2017) (0)
Botany and the Transformation of the Tropics in the Age of Imperialism (2001) (0)
Antitrust Regulators Give More Weight to Innovation (2016) (0)
Africa Set to Redefine Smart Cities (2018) (0)
Possessing the World: Taking the Measurements of Colonisation from the 18th to the 20th Century (review) (2008) (0)
Bernard Semmel. The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1993. Pp. xii, 223. $34.95 (1994) (0)
Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise (2011) (0)
Can the Automotive Industry Embrace Open IP (2015) (0)
News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945. By Heidi J. S. Tworek. Harvard Historical Studies, volume 190. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii+334. $29.95. (2020) (0)

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