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

• 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

If only I could send two or three thousand choice subjects to a "re-education camp" consisting entirely of a close reading of Adas's Dominance by Design, a sweeping, powerful indictment of American technological hubris from the first European settlers to the Gulf Wars.

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

• 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

If only I could send two or three thousand choice subjects to a "re-education camp" consisting entirely of a close reading of Adas's Dominance by Design, a sweeping, powerful indictment of American technological hubris from the first European settlers to the Gulf Wars.

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

• 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

If only I could send two or three thousand choice subjects to a "re-education camp" consisting entirely of a close reading of Adas's Dominance by Design, a sweeping, powerful indictment of American technological hubris from the first European settlers to the Gulf Wars.