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Technology and the culture of progress in Meiji Japan / David G. Wittner.
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View onlineLippincott Library HC462.7 .W57 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wittner, David G.
- Series:
- Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia series ; 10.
- Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asia series ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrialization--Japan.
- Industrialization.
- Technology--Social aspects--Japan.
- Technology.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Japan.
- Industries--Social aspects--Japan.
- Industries.
- Industries--Social aspects.
- Japan--Economic conditions--1868-1918.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 199 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Meiji modernization revisited
- Tradition and modernization
- Iron machines and brick buildings : the material culture of silk reeling
- Smelting for civilization : technological choice and the modernization of the iron industry
- Bunmei kaika to gijutsu : technology's role in 'civilization and enlightenment'
- Conclusion : from technological determinism to techno-imperialism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [136]-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415433754
- 9780415433754
- 0203946375
- 9780203946374
- OCLC:
- 123391036
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