Adas Machines as the Measure of Men

Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8014-5526-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Cornell Studies in Comparative History

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adas, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the 2014 Edition
Introduction Part I. Before the Industrial Revolution Chapter 1. First Encounters: Impressions of Material Culture in an Age of Exploration
Technology—Perceptions of Backwardness: Qualified Praise
"Natural Philosophy"—Illiteracy and Faulty Calendars
Scientific and Technological Convergence and the First Hierarchies of Humankind Chapter 2. The Ascendancy of Science: Shifting Views of Non-Western Peoples in the Era of the Enlightenment
Model of Clay: The Rise and Decline of Sinophilism in Enlightenment Thought
Ancient Glories, Modern Ruins: The Orientalist Discover of Indian Learning
African Achievement and the Debate over the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Scientific Gauges and the Spirit of the Times Part II. The Age of Industrialization Chapter 3. Global Hegemony and the Rise of Technology as the Main Measure of Human Achievement
Africa: Primitive Tools and the Savage Mind
India: The Retreat of Orienta1ism
China: Despotism and Decline
Materia1 Mastery as a Prerequisite of Civilized Life Chapter 4. Attributes of the Dominant: Scientific and Technological Foundations of the Civilizing Mission
Perceptions of Man and Nature as Gauges of Western Uniqueness and Superiority
The Machine as Civilizer
Displacement and Revolution: Marx on the Impact of Machines in Asia
Time, Work, and Discipline
Space, Accuracy, and Uniformity
Worlds Apart: The Case of Ye Ming-chen Chapter 5. The Limits of Diffusion: Science and Technology in the Debate over the African and Asian Capacity for Acculturation
The First Generations of Improvers
The Search for Scientific and Technological Proofs of Racial Inequality
Qualifying the Civilizing Mission: Racists versus Improvers at the Tum of the Century
Missing the Main Point: Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Racist Thought Part III. The Twentieth Century Chapter 6. The Great War and the Assault on Scientific and Technological Measures of Human Worth
The Specter of Asia Industrialized
Trench Warfare and the Crisis of Western Civilization
Challenges to the Civilizing Mission and the Search for Alternative Measures of Human Worth Epilogue: Modernization Theory and the Revival of the Technological Standard Index

Über Autor(innen)

AdasMichael:
Michael Adas is Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History and Board of Governors' Chair at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 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.