Reviews for Skills Access Manager : Exam Password for: Microsoft Office - Course Technology

The average rating for Skills Access Manager : Exam Password for: Microsoft Office - Course Technology based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-29 00:00:00 Steve Dougherty Headrick's book is a short, narrowly focused, academic, and somewhat dry study of the technologies (gunboats, quinine, breechloading weapons, and railways) which allowed Europeans to colonize and otherwise control large swathes of Asia and Africa in the 19th century, and is more likely to be read in a university library carrel than in a beach chair. I would not recommend it for the reader with a casual interest in the history of European imperialism. Instead check out the piles of more readable and broader-in-scope studies out there (e.g. James Morris' Pax Britannica trilogy) or well-known narratives by such folks as Orwell. One I can recommend: Lawrence James' Rise and Fall of the British Empire. I've also read positive reviews of Hochschild's Leopold's Ghost.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-19 00:00:00 Rebecca Brugler Though this book contained far to many lists of names and numbers that were nearly impossible to follow, it is a great overview of the technological impact of British (and other) colonialism of the 19th and early 20th century. Unlike other books I've read on the subject, Headrick's account does not glorify 'the empire' and, while the section is brief, comments on the negative impacts of colonialism on native populations. The book also contains extensive reference notes with each chapter, allowing anyone who would like to to find a great number of other books to read on the subjects of technologies and European imperialism.