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  • THE GOLDEN AGE
    IAN INKSTER / COLIN GRIFFIN / JUDITH ROWBOTHAM
    In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of industrial England. For the next twenty years Britain reigned supreme. From around 1870 Britain began to decline. Britain is now a second rate power with strong memories of its former supremacy. The above five sentences summarise a common view of the se...

    $1,059.00

  • JAPANESE INDUSTRIALISATION
    IAN INKSTER
    Japan's escape from colonialism and its subsequent industrialisation has taken it to the point where its economy is second only to that of the US. This comprehensive volume examines how this rapid change of fortunes occurred, and the impact it has had on East Asia and the world at large. Taking a wide range and focus, Inkster looks at the history of Japan's industrial developme...

    $1,099.00

  • METROPOLIS AND PROVINCE
    IAN INKSTER
    This collection of case studies, focusing on British scientific culture during the first industrial revolution, explores the social basis of science in the period and asks why such an extraordinarily rich variety of cultural-scientific experience should have flourished at the time. The book analyses science and scientific culture in their local contexts, both metropolitan and p...

    $1,139.00

  • THE JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY
    IAN INKSTER
    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 enginee...

    $1,059.00