1st Edition
The Japanese Industrial Economy Late Development and Cultural Causation
By Ian Inkster
Copyright 2001
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book reveals that the manipulation of culture was of more importance than the character of the original cultural stock in explaining Japan's modern industrialization. Thus the features of private enterprise culture that are so often isolated as keys to the nation's historical competitiveness may have been only temporary reflections of this wider process of cultural engineering: a necessary... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Interpretations of Japan; Chapter 3 Maturity; Chapter 4 Forging explanations; Chapter 5 Cultural engineering; Chapter 6 The institutions of late development; Chapter 7 Nationalism and globalism;
Biography
Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and editor of the journal History of Technology. His books include Clever City(1991), Science and Technology in History (1991), and Technology and Industrialisation (1998). This book is the sister volume to Japanese Industrialisation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, also published by Routledge in 2001.
