02930nam 2200697Ia 450 991081811720332120200520144314.00-674-02007-310.4159/9780674020078(CKB)1000000000787052(EBL)3300084(DE-B1597)457533(OCoLC)1013948469(OCoLC)1029824830(OCoLC)1032677772(OCoLC)1037972616(OCoLC)1041979403(OCoLC)1046615133(OCoLC)1047017938(OCoLC)647823719(OCoLC)979752206(DE-B1597)9780674020078(Au-PeEL)EBL3300084(CaPaEBR)ebr10312789(OCoLC)842288486(MiAaPQ)EBC3300084(EXLCZ)99100000000078705220050701d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDominance by design technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission /Michael Adas1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press20061 online resource (480 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-674-01867-2 0-674-03216-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-514) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: A TRAIN FOR THE SHOGUN -- 1. "ENGINS" 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 SUPREMACY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEXLong 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.TechnologyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryTechnological innovationsUnited StatesHistoryPolitical messianismUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relations20th centuryUnited StatesTerritorial expansionTechnologyHistoryTechnological innovationsHistory.Political messianism327.73/009/04ML 5740rvkAdas Michael1943-242682MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818117203321Dominance by design4095199UNINA