Machines As the Measure of Men : (Record no. 72941)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780801455261 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780801479809 |
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| System control number | (CaONFJC)MIL752071 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)905222587 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | JV8131 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.48/3 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Adas, Michael. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Machines As the Measure of Men : |
| Remainder of title | Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 2nd ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Ithaca : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Cornell University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2015. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (453 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Cornell Studies in Comparative History Series |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | No detailed description available for "Machines as the Measure of Men". |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Technology - History. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Adas, Michael |
| Title | Machines As the Measure of Men |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2015 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780801479809 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Cornell Studies in Comparative History Series |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138695">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138695</a> |
| Public note | Click to View |
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