Long before the United States became a major force in global
affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others due to
their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social
well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to "civilize"
non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American
technological prowess and design. As an integral part of America's
national identity and sense of itself in the world, this civilizing
mission provided the rationale to displace the Indians from much of
our continent, to build an island empire in the Pacific and
Caribbean, and to promote unilateral--at times
military--interventionism throughout Asia. In our age of "smart
bombs" and mobile warfare, technological aptitude remains
preeminent in validating America's global mission.
Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission
through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries from
North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.
The belief that it is our right and destiny to remake foreign
societies in our image has endured from the early decades of
colonization to our current crusade to implant American-style
democracy in the Muslim Middle East.
"Dominance by Design" explores the critical ways in which
technological superiority has undergirded the U.S.'s policies of
unilateralism, preemption, and interventionism in foreign affairs
and raised us from an impoverished frontier nation to a global
power. Challenging the long-held assumptions and imperatives that
sustain 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.
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