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Machines As The Measure Of Men


Machines As The Measure Of Men
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Author : Michael Adas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Machines As The Measure Of Men written by Michael Adas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.


Adas (history, Rutgers) examines the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority have since the 16th century shaped their interactions with non-Western peoples and cultures--cultures that they judge to represent lower levels of material mastery and social organization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



Making Technology Masculine


Making Technology Masculine
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Author : Ruth Oldenziel
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 1999

Making Technology Masculine written by Ruth Oldenziel and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Technology & Engineering categories.


A pioneering study of the relations between gender and technology.



Dominance By Design


Dominance By Design
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Author : Michael Adas
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009

Dominance By Design written by Michael Adas and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.


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.



Man A Machine And Man A Plant


Man A Machine And Man A Plant
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Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 1994-01-01

Man A Machine And Man A Plant written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Philosophy categories.


The first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie's pioneering L'Homme machine and L'Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively, this volume also includes translations of the advertisement and dedication to L'Homme machine. Justin Leiber's introduction illuminates the radical thinking and advocacy of the passionate La Mettrie and provides cogent analysis of La Mettrie's relationship to such important philosophical figures as Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke, and of his lasting influence on the development of materialism, cognitive studies, linguistics, and other areas of intellectual inquiry.



Machines As The Measure Of Men


Machines As The Measure Of Men
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Author : Michael Adas
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1989

Machines As The Measure Of Men written by Michael Adas and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.


This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.



The Logic Of Slavery


The Logic Of Slavery
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Author : Tim Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-27

The Logic Of Slavery written by Tim Armstrong and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-27 with Literary Criticism categories.


In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique 'culture of slavery'. That culture exists as a metaphorical, artistic and literary tradition attached to the enslaved - human beings whose lives are 'owed' to another, who are used as instruments by another and who must endure suffering in silence. Tim Armstrong explores the metaphorical legacy of slavery in American culture by investigating debt, technology and pain in African-American literature and a range of other writings and artworks. Armstrong's careful analysis reveals how notions of the slave as a debtor lie hidden in our accounts of the commodified self and how writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison grapple with the pervasive view that slaves are akin to machines.



Man A Machine


Man A Machine
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Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927

Man A Machine written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Materialism categories.




Machines As The Measure Of Men


Machines As The Measure Of Men
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Author : Michael Adas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Machines As The Measure Of Men written by Michael Adas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Developing countries categories.




The Male Machine


The Male Machine
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Author : Marc Feigen Fasteau
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 1975

The Male Machine written by Marc Feigen Fasteau and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Psychology categories.




Machines As The Measure Of Men


Machines As The Measure Of Men
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Author : Michael Adas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Machines As The Measure Of Men written by Michael Adas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Developing countries categories.