Engineers of Happy Land
Subtitle: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780691091624
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Asian studies; Colonization & independence; History of engineering & technology; Social aspects; History - General History; Civilization; Science/Mathematics; Indonesia; Anthropology - General; Asia - Southeast Asia; Anthropology; Postcolonial Studies; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Technology; Engineering - General; 20th century; History; Nationalism; Nationalism and technology
First sentence: IT MAY help, just for a moment, to think, with Bergson, about a landscape in the beginning, as if it were "the surface of a soul that is thoroughly calm and unruffled."