{"59605":{"#nid":"59605","#data":{"type":"event","title":"HTS Speaker Presentation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETalk by Dr. Michael Adas:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Dominance By Design: Technological Imperatives and America\u0027s Civilizing Mission\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESponsored by the School of History, Technology, and Society\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EReviews of Dominance by Design\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichael Adas carries...critical interpretation of American policy into the past, arguing that throughout history the attitudes and actions of Americans toward non-Western peoples have been characterized by condescension, arrogance, and violence...Adas attributes the moral blindness and overweening arrogance of the American people toward non-Western peoples to the powerful technologies they have adopted or developed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n--Daniel R. Headrick\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this extraordinary, and extraordinarily important, book, Michael Adas not only gives us a fascinating historical overview of American technology but how faith in that technology\u0027s power shaped (or tragically misshaped) American religion, fine art, race relations, engineers and engineering, and views of Islam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n--Walter LaFeber, Cornell University\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Talk by Dr. Michael Adas:\n\n\u0022Dominance By Design: Technological Imperatives and America\u0027s Civilizing Mission\u0022","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Michael Adas"}],"uid":"1","created_gmt":"2010-06-22 09:22:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:45:50","author":"Jupiter","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2007-09-20T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2007-09-20T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2007-09-20T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2007-09-20 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2007-09-20 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2007-09-20 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.hts.gatech.edu\/news\/events.php","title":"School of History, Technology, and Society"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"620","name":"Bayor"},{"id":"3728","name":"comparative"},{"id":"2602","name":"discussion"},{"id":"3730","name":"editor"},{"id":"3731","name":"editors"},{"id":"2532","name":"evening"},{"id":"3726","name":"ga tech"},{"id":"1683","name":"history"},{"id":"3729","name":"hosting"},{"id":"3734","name":"publish"},{"id":"3727","name":"ron"},{"id":"3732","name":"round"},{"id":"167044","name":"society"},{"id":"167053","name":"sociology"},{"id":"3733","name":"table"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ESteven Henderson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=sh264\u0022\u003EContact Steven Henderson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3196\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}