Technology and the culture of progress in Meiji Japan
By: David G. Wittner.
Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asia series -- 10
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon, OX; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415433754
Subjects: Industrialization -- Japan; Technology -- Social aspects -- Japan; Industries -- Social aspects -- Japan; Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1868-1918
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tradition and modernization; title: Iron machines and brick buildings: the material culture of silk reeling; title: Smelting for civilization: technical choice and the modernization of the Iron industry; title: Bunmei kaika to gijutsu: technology's role in "civilization and enlightenment"; title: From technological determinism.