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

Michael Adas
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • Maps and Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Part I BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (page 17)
  • 1 First Encounters: Impressions of Material Culture in an Age of Exploration (page 21)
  • 2 The Ascendancy of Science: Shifting Views of Non-Western Peoples in the Era of the Enlightenment (page 69)
  • Part II THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION (page 129)
  • 3 Global Hegemony and the Rise of Technology as the Main Measure of Human Achievement (page 133)
  • 4 Attributes of the Dominant: Scientific and Technological Foundations of the Civilizing Mission (page 199)
  • 5 The Limits of Diffusion: Science and Technology in the Debate over the African and Asian Capacity for Acculturation (page 271)
  • Part III THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (page 343)
  • 6 The Great War and the Assault on Scientific and Technological Measures of Human Worth (page 345)
  • Epilogue: Modernization Theory and the Revival of the Technological Standard (page 402)
  • Index (page 419)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 96.4 (Oct. 1991): 1166-1167 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199110%2996%3A4%3C1166%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
JMH 63.3 (Sep. 1991): 557-558 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199109%2978%3A2%3C536%3AUAUBTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
PA 63.3 (Autumn 1990): 379-381 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-851X%28199023%2963%3A3%3C396%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1
JEH 50.2 (Jun. 1990): 510-511 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28199006%2950%3A2%3C510%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
JAS 49.2 (May 1990): 350-352 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28199005%2949%3A2%3C350%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
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Published: 1989
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801455254 (ebook)
  • 9780801423031 (hardcover)
  • 9780801497605 (paper)
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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