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The imported pioneers : westerners who helped build modern Japan / Neil Pedlar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pedlar, Alfred Neil, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Noncitizens--Japan.
- Noncitizens.
- Japan.
- Japan--Officials and employees, Noncitizen.
- Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- Within little more than 50 years Japan had moved from being a shogunate to a superstate. But without these early western 'pioneers' and the know-how they brought to Japan's fledgling national enterprise, observes Pedlar, the place Japan holds in the world today might be very different.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312036639
- OCLC:
- 21523636
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