Michael Adas
Biographic Data
| ID | 131375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Adas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Adas |
| SIGNATURE | ADAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 370 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
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 interactions with people overseas. Adopting a broad, comparative perspective, he analyzes European respons…
The Virtues of Rigorous Comparison: Peter Stearns’s Contributions to Global History
In virtually every conceivable sort of scholarly and educational endeavor Peter Stearns has made major contributions to the increasingly important subfield of global history. The article focuses on his many books and essays on the centrality of the industrial revolution in the profound transformations in virtually all aspects of human societies and the planet they inhabit in the last three centuries CE. Stearns's unobtrusive, but sophisticated, u…
Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaptation and Adoption
Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contributed to the emergence of European commercial enclaves in Africa and Asia, and the conquest of the Americas. This volume illustrates the ways in which these European technological advantages shaped the expansion of the global system, whilst making clear that Western technology both adapted models from o…
"The Flawed "Tools of Empire: Clive Dewey, Steamboats on the Indus
The Flawed "Tools of Empire"Clive Dewey, Steamboats on the Indus Michael Adas (bio) Despite the deceptively modest range of historical processes and geographical coverage suggested by its title, Clive Dewey's Steamboats on the Indus: The Limits of Western Technological Superiority in South Asia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 360. $130) is a book of importance not only for social scientists and engineers interested in the history of…
Ambivalent Ally: American Military Intervention and the Endgame and Legacy of World War I
The article focuses on the AEF, entry into WW1; its impact on the allies and revisionist histories of John Pershing's leadership and the outcome of the conflict.
The Burma Delta: Economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland
Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission
Reconsidering the macro-narrative in global history: John Darwin’s After Tamerlane and the case for comparison
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Dominance by design: Technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission
"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 a…
A Colonial War in a Postcolonial Era: The United States’ Occupation of Vietnam
The available accounts of the exchanges among the leaders of the grand alliance against the Axis powers in World War II make it clear that Franklin D. Roosevelt rarely passed up a chance to debunk European-style colonialism. Although Roosevelt explicitly rejected the idealistic moralizing that had earlier pervaded Woodrow Wilson's dealings with the other great powers, allies and enemies alike, he evinced a good deal more concern than Wilson had f…
Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830
This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse. These trajectories were synchronized…
From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History
Journal Article From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History Get access Michael Adas Michael Adas Michael Adas is the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His teaching and research have been devoted to the comparative history of European and American colonialism. His more recent publications have focused on the technological …
From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History
Seeing Like a State
Journal Article Seeing Like a State Get access Michael Adas Michael Adas Rutgers University, Department of HistoryNew Brunswick, NJ 08903 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 33, Issue 4, Summer 2000, Pages 959–963, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2000.0050 Published: 01 July 2000
Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius
Introduction - science, canes and colonies constraints, colonization and canes, 1500-1853 new canes for a dying industry, 1853-1893 canes in an experiment station, 1893-1913 the Department of Agriculture, 1913-1930 small planters and new canes, 1913-1937 sugar and the making of a new state, 1937-1993 conclusion - creoles and hybrids
Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaption, and Adoption
Imperialism and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective
(1998). Imperialism and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective. The International History Review: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 371-388
Improving on the Civilising Mission? Assumptions of United States Exceptionalism in the Colonisation of the Philippines
Just days after William Howard Taft arrived in the Philippine Islands in early June 1900 to take up his position as the chairman of the five member commission charged with the task of establishing a civilian government for the newly annexed colony, he wrote to J.G. Schmidlapp, an old friend in Ohio, to assure him that he was settling quite comfortably into his exotic surroundings. Taft found the climate in Manila much more agreeable than he had b…
The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India
The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India by Zaheer Baber
354 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE many of which are already in the public domain, it is worth asking whether anyone will be persuaded to pay the publisher’s exorbitant price. Daniel R. Headrick Dr. Headrick, professor of history and social science at Roosevelt University, is the author of The Tools ofEmpire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), The Tentacles ofProgress: Tec…
Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development. By Stephen K. Sanderson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. xii plus 452pp.)
Journal Article Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development. By Stephen K. Sanderson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. xii plus 452pp.) Get access Michael Adas Michael Adas Rutgers University, Department of HistoryNew Brunswick, NJ 08903 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issue 4, Summer 1997, Pages 967–970, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/30.4.967 Published: 0…
A Field Matures: Technology, Science, and Western Colonialism
Review Essay A FIELD MATURES: TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND WESTERN COLONIALISM MICHAEL ADAS Books reviewed in this essay: Deepak Kumar, Science and the Raj, 1857-1905 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994); Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar, eds., Technology and the Raj: West ern Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700-1947 (New Delhi, London, and Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1995). These two volumes, which focus on the premier…
Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government
List of illustrations Preface Introduction 1. From Present to Past: the Politics of Colonial Studies 11 2. Culture and Rule: Theories of Colonial Discourse 33 3. From Past to Present: Colonial Epochs, Agents, and Locations 66 4. Colonial Governmentality and Colonial Conversion 105 5. Imperial Triumph, Settler Failure 143 6. The Primitivist and the Postcolonial 170 Notes 196 Notes to Plates 231 Index 235
Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940
Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
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 interactions with people overseas. Adopting a broad, comparative perspective, he analyzes European respons…
The Burma Delta: Economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941
From footdragging to flight: The evasive history of peasant avoidance protest in south and South‐East Asia
1986). From footdragging to flight: The evasive history of peasant avoidance protest in south and South‐East Asia. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 13, Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance in South‐East Asia, pp. 64-86
From Avoidance to Confrontation: Peasant Protest in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia
Although there has been a dramatic broadening of the definition of social protest in recent years to include collective behavior that was once dismissed as criminal, irrational, or insignificant, our attention has continued to be focused on movements involving direct, often violent, confrontations between the wielders of power and dissident groups. Avoidance protest, by which dissatisfied groups seek to attenuate their hardships and express their…
Immigrant Asians and the Economic Impact of European Imperialism: The Role of the South Indian Chettiars in British Burma
The early debate over the economic impact of European imperialism on the Afro-Asian world centered largely upon the roles played by the European rulers. Both pro- and anti-imperialist writers focused on the introduction and effects of European economic policies and institutions, on the alleged benefits or exploitation that resulted from official and private European economic enterprise, and on the implications of European colonial control for the…
Imperialism and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective
(1998). Imperialism and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective. The International History Review: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 371-388
Moral Economy" or "Contest State: Elite Demands and the Origins of Peasant Protest in Southeast Asia
Journal Article "Moral Economy" or "Contest State"?: Elite Demands and the Origins of Peasant Protest in Southeast Asia Get access Michael Adas Michael Adas Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 13, Issue 4, Summer 1980, Pages 521–546, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/13.4.521 Published: 01 July 1980
Improving on the Civilising Mission? Assumptions of United States Exceptionalism in the Colonisation of the Philippines
Just days after William Howard Taft arrived in the Philippine Islands in early June 1900 to take up his position as the chairman of the five member commission charged with the task of establishing a civilian government for the newly annexed colony, he wrote to J.G. Schmidlapp, an old friend in Ohio, to assure him that he was settling quite comfortably into his exotic surroundings. Taft found the climate in Manila much more agreeable than he had b…
Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius
Introduction - science, canes and colonies constraints, colonization and canes, 1500-1853 new canes for a dying industry, 1853-1893 canes in an experiment station, 1893-1913 the Department of Agriculture, 1913-1930 small planters and new canes, 1913-1937 sugar and the making of a new state, 1937-1993 conclusion - creoles and hybrids
Imperialist Rhetoric and Modern Historiography: The Case of Lower Burma before and after Conquest
One of the most prevalent and influential themes in the literature on European imperialism has been the dichotomy between conditions in an area threatened by European conquest prior to and following the imposition of colonial rule. Even writers who have disapproved of the extension of European control normally have had little favourable to say about indigenous rulers or the state of kingdoms about to be annexed. Historians have generally pictured…
Reconsidering the macro-narrative in global history: John Darwin’s After Tamerlane and the case for comparison
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The Burma Delta
Imperialist Rhetoric and Modern Historiography: The Case of Lower Burma before and after Conquest
One of the most prevalent and influential themes in the literature on European imperialism has been the dichotomy between conditions in an area threatened by European conquest prior to and following the imposition of colonial rule. Even writers who have disapproved of the extension of European control normally have had little favourable to say about indigenous rulers or the state of kingdoms about to be annexed. Historians have generally pictured…
Immigrant Asians and the Economic Impact of European Imperialism: The Role of the South Indian Chettiars in British Burma
The early debate over the economic impact of European imperialism on the Afro-Asian world centered largely upon the roles played by the European rulers. Both pro- and anti-imperialist writers focused on the introduction and effects of European economic policies and institutions, on the alleged benefits or exploitation that resulted from official and private European economic enterprise, and on the implications of European colonial control for the…
The Burma Delta
British Policy and the Nationalist Movement in Burma 1917-1937
Moral Economy" or "Contest State: Elite Demands and the Origins of Peasant Protest in Southeast Asia
Journal Article "Moral Economy" or "Contest State"?: Elite Demands and the Origins of Peasant Protest in Southeast Asia Get access Michael Adas Michael Adas Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 13, Issue 4, Summer 1980, Pages 521–546, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/13.4.521 Published: 01 July 1980
From Avoidance to Confrontation: Peasant Protest in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia
Although there has been a dramatic broadening of the definition of social protest in recent years to include collective behavior that was once dismissed as criminal, irrational, or insignificant, our attention has continued to be focused on movements involving direct, often violent, confrontations between the wielders of power and dissident groups. Avoidance protest, by which dissatisfied groups seek to attenuate their hardships and express their…
Leaders and Followers, Revolutions and Rebellions: Two Comparative Approaches
The National Liberation Movement in Burma During the Japanese Occupation Period (1941-1945)
Social History and the Revolution in African and Asian Historiography
Journal Article Social History and the Revolution in African and Asian Historiography Get access Michael Adas Michael Adas Rutgers University Department of History, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 19, Issue 2, Winter 1985, Pages 335–348, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/19.2.335 Published: 01 December 1985
From footdragging to flight: The evasive history of peasant avoidance protest in south and South‐East Asia
1986). From footdragging to flight: The evasive history of peasant avoidance protest in south and South‐East Asia. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 13, Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance in South‐East Asia, pp. 64-86
Burma: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide to International Doctoral Dissertation Research, 1898-1985
Comparative History and the Colonial Encounter: The Great War and the Crisis of the British Empire
In his recent work on the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers , Paul Kennedy stresses the importance of Great Britain's colonial empire in establishing its credentials as the most imposing ofthe great powers in the decades before the First World War. Britain not only possessed ‘the greatest empire the world had ever seen’, but its status as the great global power appeared to be enhanced by the fact that in the last three decades of the nineteenth c…
Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance.
Scientific Standards and Colonial Education in British India and French Senegal
The first decades of the nineteenth century saw a decisive shift in the relationship between European civilization and those of Africa and Asia. From merchants trading on the coastal periphery of Africa and Asia, the Europeans became the conquerors of vast land empires: the British greatly enlarged the colony they had been building in India since the mid-eighteenth century; the Dutch consolidated their hold over Java; and on the southern tip of A…
The Burmese Polity: 1752-1819: Politics, Administration, and Social Organization in the Early Kon-Baung Period
The Savage within: The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885-1945 . Henrika Kuklick
Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India
The reconstruction of "tradition" and the defense of the colonial order: British west Africa in the early twentieth century
Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government
List of illustrations Preface Introduction 1. From Present to Past: the Politics of Colonial Studies 11 2. Culture and Rule: Theories of Colonial Discourse 33 3. From Past to Present: Colonial Epochs, Agents, and Locations 66 4. Colonial Governmentality and Colonial Conversion 105 5. Imperial Triumph, Settler Failure 143 6. The Primitivist and the Postcolonial 170 Notes 196 Notes to Plates 231 Index 235
Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940
Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940 by Lewis Pyenson
190 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE bridge Scientific Instrument Company line (citing Michael Cattermole and A. F. Wolfe’s history of the company and Horace Darwin’s own 1913 paper) that Darwin was famous for his insistence on kine matic instrument design. She apparently missed the contributions of Darwin’s better-known Cambridge neighbors, Maxwell and Kelvin, who learned the principles of kinematic design from Robert Willis, Jacksonian Prof…
Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development. By Stephen K. Sanderson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. xii plus 452pp.)
Journal Article Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development. By Stephen K. Sanderson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. xii plus 452pp.) Get access Michael Adas Michael Adas Rutgers University, Department of HistoryNew Brunswick, NJ 08903 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issue 4, Summer 1997, Pages 967–970, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/30.4.967 Published: 0…
A Field Matures: Technology, Science, and Western Colonialism
Review Essay A FIELD MATURES: TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND WESTERN COLONIALISM MICHAEL ADAS Books reviewed in this essay: Deepak Kumar, Science and the Raj, 1857-1905 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994); Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar, eds., Technology and the Raj: West ern Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700-1947 (New Delhi, London, and Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1995). These two volumes, which focus on the premier…
Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaption, and Adoption
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