Dominance by design : technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission / / Michael Adas
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| Autore: |
Adas Michael <1943->
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| Titolo: |
Dominance by design : technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission / / Michael Adas
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.73/009/04 |
| Soggetto topico: | Technology - United States - History - 20th century |
| Technological innovations - United States - History | |
| Political messianism - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations 20th century |
| United States Territorial expansion | |
| Classificazione: | ML 5740 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-514) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dominance by design |
| ISBN: | 0-674-02007-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818117203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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