4. Attributes of the Dominant: Scientific and Technological Foundations of the Civilizing Mission

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps and Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface to the 2014 edition xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Before the Industrial Revolution
8. 1. First Encounters: Impressions of Material Culture in an Age of Exploration 21
9. 2. The Ascendancy of Science: Shifting Views of Non-Western Peoples in the Era of the Enlightenment 69
10. Part II. The Age of Industrialization
11. 3. Global Hegemony and the Rise of Technology as the Main Measure of Human Achievement 133
12. 4. Attributes of the Dominant: Scientific and Technological Foundations of the Civilizing Mission 199
13. 5. The Limits Of Diffusion: Science and Technology in the Debate over the African and Asian Capacity for Acculturation 271
14. Part III. The Twentieth Century
15. 6. The Great War and the Assault on Scientific and Technological Measures of Human Worth 345
16. Epilogue: Modernization Theory and the Revival of the Technological Standard 402
17. Index 419