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

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Main Author: Adas, Michael, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Series:Cornell studies in comparative history.
Subjects:
Technology > History.
Technology > Philosophy.
Developing countries > Dependency on foreign countries.
Technologie > Histoire.
Technologie > Philosophie.
Technology.
Techniek.
Filosofie.
Cultuurverandering.
Technique et civilisation.
Dépendance (politique)
Impérialisme.
Sciences > Aspect social.
Technique > Histoire.
Philosophie de la technique.
Developing countries > Cultural domination by developed countries > Role of technology, history
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Before the Industrial Revolution
  • First encounters: impressions of material culture in an age of exploration
  • The ascendancy of science: shifting views of non-Western peoples in the era of the Enlightenment
  • Part II: The age of industrialization
  • Global hegemony and the rise of technology as the main measure of human achievement
  • Attributes of the dominant: scientific and technological foundations of the civilizing mission
  • The limits of diffusion: science and technology in the debate over the African and Asian capacity for acculturation
  • Part III: The twentieth century
  • The Great War and the assault on scientific and technological measures of human worth
  • Epilogue: Modernization theory and the revival of the technological standard.