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100	1		_aAdas, Michael.
245	1	0	_aMachines As the Measure of Men : _bScience, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance.
250			_a2nd ed.
264		1	_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c2015.
264		4	_c©2015.
300			_a1 online resource (453 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCornell Studies in Comparative History Series
505	0		_aMachines 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		_aMissing 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			_aNo detailed description available for "Machines as the Measure of Men".
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590			_aElectronic 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	_aTechnology - History.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aAdas, Michael _tMachines As the Measure of Men _dIthaca : Cornell University Press,c2015 _z9780801479809
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aCornell Studies in Comparative History Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138695 _zClick to View
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