Michael Adas
Auteur van Machines as the Measure of Men
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Michael Adas is Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History and Board of Governors' Chair at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is the author most recently of Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission.
Werken van Michael Adas
Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission (2006) 51 exemplaren
World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Vol. 2 - 1450 To Present, Third Edition (1992) 49 exemplaren
Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order (1979) 19 exemplaren
Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on the Rice Frontier, 1852-1941 (1974) 6 exemplaren
High Imperialism and the New History (Essays on Global and Comparative History Series) (1994) 5 exemplaren
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The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy (2005) — Medewerker — 14 exemplaren
Nomads and Sedentary Societies in Medieval Eurasia (Essays on Global and Comparative History) (1998) — Voorwoord — 7 exemplaren
Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America (Duke Press Policy… (1983) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
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- 1943-02-04
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- USA
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- Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Western Michigan University (1965)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.|1971)
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Beginning with the early decades of overseas expansion in the sixteenth century, Adas traces the impact of scientific and technological advances on European attitudes toward Asians and Africans and on their policies for dealing with colonized societies. He concentrates on British and French thinking in the nineteenth century, when, he maintains, scientific and technological measures of human worth played a critical role in shaping arguments for the notion of racial supremacy and the ''civilizing mission'' ideology which were used to justify Europe's domination of the globe. Finally, he examines the reasons why many Europeans grew dissatisfied with and even rejected this gauge of human worth after World War I, and explains why it has remained important to Americans.
Showing how the scientific and industrial revolutions contributed to the development of European imperialist ideologies,Machines as the Measure of Men highlights the cultural factors that have nurtured disdain for non-Western accomplishments and value systems. It also indicates how these attitudes, in shaping policies that restricted the diffusion of scientific knowledge, have perpetuated themselves, and contributed significantly to chronic underdevelopment throughout the developing world. Adas's far-reaching and provocative book will be compelling reading for all who are concerned about the history of Western imperialism and its legacies.… (meer)