| Review | Journal of Social History, 41.1

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Dominance By Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. By Michael Adas (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. 542 pp. $29.95).

The title "Dominance By Design" conceivably might be misread to mean the hegemonic export of advanced technologies, particularly since a self-aligning ball bearing from the Museum of Modern Art dominates the dust jacket. A tiny image of an Apache helicopter hovering over the subtitle more accurately suggests that Michael Adas is concerned with how Americans made technology part of Manifest Destiny as they developed an expansionist foreign policy.

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