Machines as the Measure of Men : : Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance /

Machines as the Measure of Men : : Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance / / Michael Adas.

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Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Adas, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:With a New Preface
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Comparative History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface to the 2014 edition
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Before the Industrial Revolution
  • 1. First Encounters: Impressions of Material Culture in an Age of Exploration
  • 2. The Ascendancy of Science: Shifting Views of Non-Western Peoples in the Era of the Enlightenment
  • Part II. The Age of Industrialization
  • 3. Global Hegemony and the Rise of Technology as the Main Measure of Human Achievement
  • 4. Attributes of the Dominant: Scientific and Technological Foundations of the Civilizing Mission
  • 5. The Limits Of Diffusion: Science and Technology in the Debate over the African and Asian Capacity for Acculturation
  • Part III. The Twentieth Century
  • 6. The Great War and the Assault on Scientific and Technological Measures of Human Worth
  • Epilogue: Modernization Theory and the Revival of the Technological Standard
  • Index

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