Dominance by design
Subtitle: technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission
By: Michael Adas.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
Subjects: Technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Technological innovations -- United States -- History; Messianism, Political -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; United States -- Territorial expansion
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.