Books by Michael Adas

Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. Arranged topically to emphasize comparative patterns, the study analyzes causes, leaders, organisation, failure, and the impact on the individual society.

Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority shaped their...

Long before the U.S. became a major force in global affairs, U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to "civilize" non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. Adas pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries.

Presents the essential background information and methods for effective teaching and writing on cross-cultural history. This title charts the advances in understanding in their fields of concentration, revealing both specific findings and broad patterns that have emerged.

Introduces readers to the cross-cultural study of ancient and classical civilizations. This book surveys methodologies and critical interpretations that have been essential to the development of comparative historical analysis. It focuses on regional patterns in the dissemination of ideas, institutions, and material culture.