Dominance by design

Technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission

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ID6523959
AuthorsMichael Adas
Year2005
Pages542
Publication date2005-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byDominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission, Wesley T Wooley, 2007
VenueDominance by design (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBelknap Press of Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER)
Open LibraryOL3425031M
ISBN9780674018679
LanguageEN
Citations received21

"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 as cautionary lessons for the future."--Jacket

20th century · Foreign relations · Messianism · Political · Technological innovations · Territorial expansion · United States · civilization · History · Messianism, Political · Political messianism · Technology

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