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

Klappentext Michael Adas is Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History and Board of Governors' Chair at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Zusammenfassung Over the past five centuries! advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men! Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority shaped their...

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• Authors: Michael Adas
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.01.2015
• EAN: 9780801479809
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7980-9
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Cornell Studies in Comparative History
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous