Michael Adas
Autore di Machines as the Measure of Men
Sull'Autore
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.
Opere di Michael Adas
Opere correlate
The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy (2005) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Nomads and Sedentary Societies in Medieval Eurasia (Essays on Global and Comparative History) (1998) — Prefazione — 7 copie
Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America (Duke Press Policy… (1983) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1943-02-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Istruzione
- Western Michigan University (1965)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.|1971)
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- Opere
- 18
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 400
- Popolarità
- #60,685
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 53
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.… (altro)