Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (With a New Preface)

Author/Contributor(s):	Adas, Michael
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	01/09/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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 and technological superiority shaped their...