Название: Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
Автор: Michael Adas
Издательство: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801479800
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 456
Размер: 6,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.