| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. By Michael Adas. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2006. 542 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01867-2.)

From colonial times to the modern Gulf War, the United States has sought to refashion its environment in its self-image of exceptional technological modernity and economic prosperity. Michael Adas uses a series of case studies to demonstrate the power and durability of that image, although he claims to avoid the reductionist view that American imperialism is solely the product of ethnocentric perceived superiority. He also argues that American racism was frequently mitigated by the assumption that other peoples were quite capable of following the American example. The United States thought itself a civilizing force in the world; other nations would surely accept an American hegemony based on such benign intentions.

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