num_pages: 448
description: 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 responses to the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, India, and China, cultures that they judged to represent lower levels of material mastery and social organization.
language: English
title: Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance
titlecomplete: Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance
genres: Technology, Politics, History Of Science, Cultural, Science, World History, Grad School, Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 142
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Edelstein Prize
publisher: Cornell University Press