Dominance by Design

Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission

Michael Adas

    Introduction

    1. Engines in the Wilderness

    2. Machines and Manifest Destiny

    3. Engineers' Imperialism

    4. Foundations of an American Century

    5. Imposing Modernity

    6. Machines in the Vietnam Quagmire

    7. Technowar in the Persian Gulf

    Epilogue: The Paradox of Technological Supremacy

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Dominance by Design
  • A photo of the author

Michael Adas is the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.