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Machines as the measure of men science, technology, and ideologies of Western dominance

Michael Adas 1943-

Localização: EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (609 A221m 1990 )(Acessar)

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Machines as the measure of men science, technology, and ideologies of Western dominance
Autor: Michael Adas 1943-
Assuntos: Technology -- History; Technology -- Philosophy; Technology -- Developing countries; TECNOLOGIA (FILOSOFIA HISTÓRIA); HISTÓRIA DA CIÊNCIA
Notas: Referências e índice
Descrição: Pt.1. Before the Industrial Revolution. First encounters: impressions of material culture in an age of exploration ; The ascendancy of science: shifting views of non-western peoples in the era of Enlightenment. -- Pt.2. The age of industrialization. Global hegemony and the rise of technology as the main measure of human achievement ; Attributes of the dominant: scientific and technological foundations of the civilizing mission ; The limits of diffusion: science and technology in the debate over the African and Asian capacity for acculturation. -- Pt.3. The twentieth century. The Great War and the assault on scientific and technological measures of human worth ; Epilogue: Modernization theory and the revival of the technological standard
Títulos relacionados: Série:Cornell studies in comparative history.; Cornell paperbacks.
Editor: Ithaca, N.Y.
Data de criação/publicação: Cornell University Press 1990, c1989
Formato: xii, 430 p. ill. 25 cm.
Idioma: Inglês

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