Michael Adas is the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
[This] book is a compelling, well-written indictment of our
"techno-hubris" that should be required reading for this and
subsequent presidents as well as historians of U.S. culture,
politics, and technology.--Carolyn De La Pena"American Historical
Review" (04/01/2007)
In the past few years, bookstores have been deluged with books
critical of American foreign policy, and specifically condemning he
actions of the Bush administration in the Middle East. In
"Dominance by Design", Michael Adas carries that critical
interpretation of American policy into the past, arguing that
throughout history the attitudes and actions of Americans toward
non-Western peoples have been characterized by condescension,
arrogance, and violence...Adas attributes the moral blindness and
overweening arrogance of the American people toward non-Western
peoples to the powerful technologies they have adopted or
developed.--Daniel R. Headrick"Journal of World History"
(03/01/2007)
Michael Adas has written an excellent and most timely study of the
oft-forgotten role of technology in enabling and then justifying
European colonization of North America, the westward expansion of
the United States, and ultimately the emergence of the United
States as a global power.--John H. Morrow"Technology and Culture"
(04/01/2007)
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