Machines As the Measure of Men : Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance.

Machines as the Measure of Men -- CONTENTS -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the 2014 Edition -- Introduction -- PART I. BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -- 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 -- 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 Discovery 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 -- 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 Orientalism -- China: Despotism and Decline -- Material Mastery as a Prerequisite of Civilized Life -- 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 -- 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 Turn of the Century.

Missing the Main Point: Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Racist Thought -- PART III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 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.

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