Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped: A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imperial ... America, and Colonial India, 1880-1914

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This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this binary with a yardstick of parity. Through a sample comparative historical study focusing on the question of the emergence of the large-scale steel industry (1880-1914) of four chosen countries, two considered "developed" (Imperial UK and Post-colonial Imperial USA) and two considered "underdeveloped" (Imperial Russia and Colonial India), it is shown how this yardstick of parity can be applied without the categorization of societies as either developed or underdeveloped. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan) Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Section I: Defining and Explaining the Problem Chapter 1: Spurious and Misleading Binary Distinction Section II: A Possible Alternative Perspective Chapter 2: Erasing the Binary Distinction Section III: Applying the Alternative Perspective Chapter 3: Interaction and Conjunction of International Historical Forces, 1800–1913 Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imperial Russia, 1880–1914 Chapter 5: The (Non)Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imperial Britain, 1880–1914 Chapter 6: The Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Post-Colonial Imperial US, 1880–1914 Chapter 7: The Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in India Under British Colonial Rule, 1880–1914 Summary and Observations Bibliography About the Author Abstract