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Michael Adas

Michael Adas: Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History and Board of Governors' Chair Director, Global and Comparative History Master's Degree Program Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: With Hugh Cagle, “The Age of Settlement and Colonization” for The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories, edited by Philippa Levine and John Marriot (Farnham, Surry: Ashgate, 2012). "Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative" A Companion to World History, edited by Douglas Northrup (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), chapter fifteen. World Civiliizations: The Global Experience (New York: Longman, 2011), 6th edition; AP version, 3rd edition; Chinese-language edition. (With Peter Stearns and Stuart Schwartz). Enduring Edition of Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2011). Paperback Edition of The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852-1941 (Madison, WI.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011) Korean-language edition of Machines as the Measure of Men (Seoul: Sanchurum Publishers, 2011). A Japanese Translation of “Fatal Ambiguities: Cold War Rivalries, American Pro-Democracy Rhetoric, and Nation-Building in the Developing World” in Nationalism and Democracy, edited by Takashi Kato (Tokyo: Seikei Center for Pacific and Asian Studies, 2011), pp. 67-90. Essays on Twentieth Century History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press-AHA, 2010).

  • Prophets of Rebellion

    Prophets of Rebellion

    Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements Against the European Colonial Order by Michael Adas   Prophets of…

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