Michael Adas (*1943) is an American historian. He is the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University. He specializes in the history of technology, the history of anticolonialism and in global history.
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- The Burma Delta. Economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941, Madison, Wisconsin: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1974
- Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements Against the European Colonial Order, Univ.N.Carolina Press, 1979
- Machines as the measure of men : science, technology, and ideologies of Western dominance, Ithaca [etc.] : Cornell Univ. Pr., 1989, Paperback edition: ISBN 0801497604, review
- "The paradox of exceptionalism : contested visions of the American experience and its place in the global history of humankind" in: Comparing nationalism and citizenship of the United States and Japan ; 5 (Tokyo) : 2001.01.10, ed. by Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru, Suita : Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology, 2001
- "From avoidance to confrontation : peasant protest in precolonial and colonial Southeast Asia" in: Colonialism and culture, ed. by Nicholas B. Dirks, Ann Arbor : The Univ. of Michigan Press, 2001, 89-126
- "Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civlizing Mission Ideology" in: JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY 15/1 (2004): 31-64.
- Dominance by design : technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2006
- (with Peter Stearns and Stuart Schwartz) Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the 20th Century, Longman, 4th edition 2008
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