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Building a modern Japan : science, technology, and medicine in the Meiji era and beyond /
In the late nineteenth century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect. But how well-organized was the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
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- Male Anxieties: Nerve Force, Nation, and the Power of Sexual Knowledge /Sabine Fruhstuck
- The Female Body and Eugenic Thought in Meiji Japan /Sumiko Otsubo
- Racialising of Bodies Through Science in Meiji Japan: The Rise of Race-Based Research in Gynecology / Yuki Terazawa
- Doctors, Disease and Development: Engineering Colonial Public Health in Southern Manchurua, 1905-1926 /Robert J. Perrins
- Technology, Industry and Nation
- The Mechanization of Japan's Silk Industry and the Quest for Progress and Civilization, 1870-1880 /David G. Wittner
- A Miracle of Industry: The Struggle to Produce Sheet Glass in Modernizing Japan / Martha Chaiklin
- The Modernity of Carpenters: Daiku Technique and Meiji Technocracy / Gregory Clancey
- The Impact of the Great Depression: The Japan Spinners Association, 1927-1936 /W. Miles Fletcher.