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Machines as the measure of men: science, technology, and ideologies of Western dominance

Adas, Michael, 1943-

Year: 1989.

Publisher: Cornell University Press.

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Frontmatter

Maps and Illustrations

Acknowledgments

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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Title:

Machines as the measure of men : science, technology, and ideologies of Western dominance Michael Adas.

Author:

Adas, Michael, 1943-

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Machines as the measure of men : science, technology, and ideologies of Western dominance Michael Adas.
Adas, Michael, 1943-
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

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• Technology -- Philosophy
• Technology -- History

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