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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biographies History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe |
Named Person: | Alexander Williamson |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
TAKAAKI INUZUKA |
ISBN: | 9781787359345 1787359344 9781787359314 178735931X |
OCLC Number: | 1275174221 |
Accession No: | (DE-627)1773366939 (DE-599)KEP068636466 (MiAaJST)j.ctv1fj84dv (EBP)068636466 |
Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource) |
Abstract:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 A Traveller of Intelligence -- 2 Birkbeck Laboratory at UCL -- 3 The Chōshū Five -- 4 The Satsuma Nineteen -- 5 The Fate of the Early Students -- 6 Bridge to Japan's Modernisation -- 7 Towards 'Unity Out of Difference' -- Appendix: The Names of the Chōshū Five and Satsuma Nineteen -- Afterword: Serendipity: The Ever-Widening Circle -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.
Alexander Williamson: A Victorian chemist and the making of modern Japan is a short, accessible biography that tells the story of Alexander Williamson, professor of chemistry at UCL (1849-87) and a leading scientist of his time, and the part he played in the modernisation of Japan.
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