Dominance by design : technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission / Michael Adas.
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نصالناشر:Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2006]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2006وصف:542 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0674018672 (alk. paper)
- 9780674018679 (alk. paper)
- 9780674032163
- 0674032160
- E744 .A243 2006
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E744 .A243 2006 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011142972 | ||
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كتاب
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E744 .A243 2006 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011142973 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-514) and index.
Introduction : a train for the Shogun -- 1. "Engins" in the wilderness -- 2. Machines and Manifest destiny -- 3. Engineers' imperialism -- 4. Foundations of an American century -- 5. Imposing modernity -- 6. Machines in the Vietnam quagmire -- 7. Technowar in the Persian Gulf -- Epilogue : the paradox of technological supremacy.
"Dominance by Design explores the critical ways in which technological superiority has undergirded U.S. policies of unilateralism, preemption, and interventionism in foreign affairs while raising us from an impoverished frontier nation to a global power. Challenging the long-held assumptions and imperatives that sustain the belief in 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."--Jacket.
