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Book Title
Dominance by Design : Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission
Publication Name
Dominance by Design
Title
Dominance by Design
Subtitle
Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission
Author
Michael Adas
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0674032160
EAN
9780674032163
ISBN
9780674032163
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History, Political Science
Topic
Social Aspects, General, International Relations / General, History, United States / General, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Release Year
2009
Release Date
01/04/2009
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1.6in
Item Length
7.9in
Publication Year
2009
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Number of Pages
542 Pages

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Long before the U.S. became a major force in global affairs, U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to "civilize" non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. Adas pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674032160
ISBN-13
9780674032163
eBay Product ID (ePID)
154302791

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Book Title
Dominance by Design : Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission
Author
Michael Adas
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Aspects, General, International Relations / General, History, United States / General, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
542 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
E744.A243 2009
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Adas has identified the leitmotif of American empire: not democracy, globalization, or "soft power," but technology. Technology sanctions conquest and justifies projects to reshape the lives, habits, and environments of distant peoples. Adas has given us an arresting, comprehensive narrative that will change the way we think., Dominance by Design is a wonderful piece of synthesis -- smart, fluent, and wide-ranging. Michael Adas traces the arc of U.S. history and highlights what he calls technocentrism as a major source of American economic, military, and environmental mastery. This argument deserves a readership as broad as the scholarship on which it is based., If only I could send two or three thousand choice subjects to a "re-education camp" consisting entirely of a close reading of Adas's Dominance by Design , a sweeping, powerful indictment of American technological hubris from the first European settlers to the Gulf Wars., In this extraordinary, and extraordinarily important, book, Michael Adas not only gives us a fascinating historical overview of American technology but how faith in that technology's power shaped (or tragically misshaped) American religion, fine art, race relations, engineers and engineering, and views of Islam., Few scholars have so fully grasped the profound connection between exceptionalism, expansionism, and technological evangelism in American history. No one who seeks to understand this country's past, present, or future can afford to ignore this masterful book., In the past few years, bookstores have been deluged with books critical of American foreign policy, and specifically condemning he actions of the Bush administration in the Middle East. In Dominance by Design , Michael Adas carries that critical interpretation of American policy into the past, arguing that throughout history the attitudes and actions of Americans toward non-Western peoples have been characterized by condescension, arrogance, and violence...Adas attributes the moral blindness and overweening arrogance of the American people toward non-Western peoples to the powerful technologies they have adopted or developed., [This] book is a compelling, well-written indictment of our "techno-hubris" that should be required reading for this and subsequent presidents as well as historians of U.S. culture, politics, and technology., Michael Adas has written an excellent and most timely study of the oft-forgotten role of technology in enabling and then justifying European colonization of North America, the westward expansion of the United States, and ultimately the emergence of the United States as a global power., In the past few years, bookstores have been deluged with books critical of American foreign policy, and specifically condemning he actions of the Bush administration in the Middle East. In Dominance by Design, Michael Adas carries that critical interpretation of American policy into the past, arguing that throughout history the attitudes and actions of Americans toward non-Western peoples have been characterized by condescension, arrogance, and violence...Adas attributes the moral blindness and overweening arrogance of the American people toward non-Western peoples to the powerful technologies they have adopted or developed.
Table of Content
Introduction 1. Engines in the Wilderness 2. Machines and Manifest Destiny 3. Engineers' Imperialism 4. Foundations of an American Century 5. Imposing Modernity 6. Machines in the Vietnam Quagmire 7. Technowar in the Persian Gulf Epilogue: The Paradox of Technological SupremacyNotes Acknowledgments Index
Copyright Date
2006
Dewey Decimal
327.73/009/04
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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