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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Wittner, David G. Technology and the culture of progress in Meiji Japan. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008 (DLC) 2007016235 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David G Wittner |
ISBN: | 0203946375 9780203946374 9780415560610 0415560616 0415433754 9780415433754 |
OCLC Number: | 233792346 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 199 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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. |
Series Title: | Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia series. |
Responsibility: | David G. Wittner. |
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Abstract:
In this book, David Wittner situates Japan's Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining how nineteenth century beliefs in civilization and enlightenment influenced the process of technological choice.
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'Wittner's overall framework remains valid and offers a fresh way of looking at Japanese industrial and technological development - in cultural-political terms - during the critical opening decades of the modern era.' - Steven Ericson, Monumenta Nipponica 63:2 Read more...
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