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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第 13 頁
... interventions overseas have rendered distinctions between the roles of these " mir- ror - image twins " arbitrary and unnecessary.15 The diversity of the social groups to which supporters of the Perry expedition belonged and the mixture ...
... interventions overseas have rendered distinctions between the roles of these " mir- ror - image twins " arbitrary and unnecessary.15 The diversity of the social groups to which supporters of the Perry expedition belonged and the mixture ...
第 15 頁
... interventions , quickly grasped that scientific investigation and tech- nological innovation were the mainsprings of the power and wealth of the industrialized West . The obvious military superiority of the American fleet to any force ...
... interventions , quickly grasped that scientific investigation and tech- nological innovation were the mainsprings of the power and wealth of the industrialized West . The obvious military superiority of the American fleet to any force ...
第 17 頁
... interventions . Through a comparison of the case examples , I seek to account for significant differences in the nature and impact of technological imperatives in each phase of expansionism , and to analyze their cumulative effects on ...
... interventions . Through a comparison of the case examples , I seek to account for significant differences in the nature and impact of technological imperatives in each phase of expansionism , and to analyze their cumulative effects on ...
第 18 頁
... interventions in the Caribbean , and continuing efforts to shape political and social development in China and Japan . The second half of the book is devoted to the half - century after the Second World War , when the United States ...
... interventions in the Caribbean , and continuing efforts to shape political and social development in China and Japan . The second half of the book is devoted to the half - century after the Second World War , when the United States ...
第 26 頁
... interventions in the name of ambitious projects for the progressive transformation of so- cieties as diverse as China , Haiti , Vietnam , and Iraq . But construc- tive applications of technology have also been important in diverse areas ...
... interventions in the name of ambitious projects for the progressive transformation of so- cieties as diverse as China , Haiti , Vietnam , and Iraq . But construc- tive applications of technology have also been important in diverse areas ...
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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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