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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Arne Kaijser, Melvin Kranzberg, Michael Adas, Lewis Mumford, Kirkpatrick Sale, Gregory K. Dreicer, David F. Noble, Gilbert Simondon, Jason Scott Sadofsky, Robert Heilbroner, Nathan Sivin, Charles Singer, Donald Davidson, Doron Swade, Wiebe Bijker, Trevor Pinch, Bertrand Gille, Peter H. Salus, Jennifer S. Light, Thomas P. Hughes, James I. C. Boyd, Ahmad Y. al-Hassan, Donald Routledge Hill, Martin Campbell-Kelly, David Edgerton, David A. Hounshell, Patricia Seed, Eugene S. Ferguson, NASA Historical Advisory Committee, John Krige. Excerpt: 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. Michael Adas was born February 4, 1943 in Detroit, MI to Harold A., and Elizabeth (Rivard) Adas. For his B.A degree, Adas attended Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). Adas attended the University of Wisconsin -Madison for his graduate schooling where he earned two M.A. degrees, History (1967) and Indian Studies (1968), as well as his Ph.D in 1971. In the same year that he earned his M.A. degree in Indian studies he married Jane Hampton on June 18, 1967. In 1971 Adas was brought on as an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Adas steadily rose through the ranks gaining Associate (1974) and Professor (1978) status along the way. In 1996, Michael Adas received dual honors, Adas was promoted to Rutgers University Board of Governor's Professor and received the Abraham E. Voorhees Chair in History. Currently Michael Adas teaches six undergraduate level courses: 20th Century Global History to 1945, The Era of World War I, Imperialism, America's Rise to Global Power, and History Seminars on "American Interventions Overseas" and "Colonial Wars." Adas also teaches two graduate level courses: Seminar on Global and Comparative History, and Colloquium on Comparative and Global History. In addition, Michael Adas is a member of the Association for Asian Studies and the American Association of History Professors. The Burma Delta is a very in-depth and technical look at the Burmese people, their economy and their struggles from 1852-1941. Adas writes of the rise of the Konbaung Dynasty and how it was able to assert itself over the many ethnic groups that comprised the territories around Upper Burma, or also known as the Dry Zone. This influence was short lived due to invasions by the British and the annexation of Lower Burma by India in 1852. By 1886 the