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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adas, Michael, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Edición:2014 edition, with a new preface.
Colección:Cornell studies in comparative history.
Temas:
Technology > History.
Technology > Philosophy.
Technologie > Histoire.
Technologie > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > World.
Technology
Technology > Philosophy
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
  • Technologyâ€?Perceptions of Backwardness; Qualified Praise
  • “Natural Philosophyâ€?â€?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 ThoughtAncient 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 Life4. 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 ImproversThe 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 WorthEpilogue: Modernization Theory and the Revival of the Technological Standard
  • Index

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