Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing MissionHarvard University Press, 2009 - 542 頁 Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others due to their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to civilize non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. As an integral part of America's national identity and sense of itself in the world, this civilizing mission provided the rationale to displace the Indians from much of our continent, to build an island empire in the Pacific and Caribbean, and to promote unilateral--at times military--interventionism throughout Asia. In our age of smart bombs and mobile warfare, technological aptitude remains preeminent in validating America's global mission. Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries from North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. The belief that it is our right and destiny to remake foreign societies in our image has endured from the early decades of colonization to our current crusade to implant American-style democracy in the Muslim Middle East. Dominance by Design explores the critical ways in which technological superiority has undergirded the U.S.'s policies of unilateralism, preemption, and interventionism in foreign affairs and raised us from an impoverished frontier nation to a global power. Challenging the long-held assumptions and imperatives that sustain the civilizing mission, Adas gives us an essential guide to America's past and present role in the world as well as cautionary lessons for the future. |
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... Indians from much of our continent , to build an island empire in the Pacific and the Caribbean , and to promote unilateral -- at times military — interventionism throughout Asia . In our age of " smart bombs " and mobile warfare ...
... Indians from much of our continent , to build an island empire in the Pacific and the Caribbean , and to promote unilateral -- at times military — interventionism throughout Asia . In our age of " smart bombs " and mobile warfare ...
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... Indian societies shaped the initial conception of America's civilizing mission , are the focus of Chapter 1. Chapter 2 traces the persistence and transformation of these themes in the nineteenth century , when industrialization and ...
... Indian societies shaped the initial conception of America's civilizing mission , are the focus of Chapter 1. Chapter 2 traces the persistence and transformation of these themes in the nineteenth century , when industrialization and ...
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... Indians in the seventeenth cen- tury , many of those who wrote about Indian peoples or formulated policies for them assumed , at least implicitly , that these collective and individual deficiencies were not only obvious markers of ...
... Indians in the seventeenth cen- tury , many of those who wrote about Indian peoples or formulated policies for them assumed , at least implicitly , that these collective and individual deficiencies were not only obvious markers of ...
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... Indian communities struggling to survive on the margins of American society . Despite the fact that enslaved African Americans managed to preserve significant elements of African culture , soon af- ter they were introduced into ...
... Indian communities struggling to survive on the margins of American society . Despite the fact that enslaved African Americans managed to preserve significant elements of African culture , soon af- ter they were introduced into ...
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... Indians ' nomadic way of life and their failure to make use of the continent's resources , John White's late sixteenth - century drawing of the " Towne of Secota " in the Chesapeake region portrays substantial village dwellings and the ...
... Indians ' nomadic way of life and their failure to make use of the continent's resources , John White's late sixteenth - century drawing of the " Towne of Secota " in the Chesapeake region portrays substantial village dwellings and the ...
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Engins in the Wilderness | 33 |
Machines and Manifest Destiny | 67 |
Engineers Imperialism | 129 |
Foundations of an American Century | 185 |
Imposing Modernity | 219 |
Machines in the Vietnam Quagmire | 281 |
Technowar in the Persian Gulf | 339 |
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