David G Wittner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5068641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David G Wittner |
| GIVEN NAMES | David G |
| FAMILY NAME | Wittner |
| SIGNATURE | WITTNER D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utica College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Tale of Two Mills
Since the 1950s, historians have sought to explain industrial modernization in Meiji Japan as a model for developing countries. They typically attribute Japan's success to single factors such as accumulated knowledge or capital, visionary leadership, or technological choice. This article moves beyond mono-causality to examine technology transfer's role in industrial modernization. Tomioka Silk Filature and Osaka Cotton Spinning Mill make the case…
Making Time
Reviewed by: Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan by Yulia Frumer David Wittner (bio) Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan By Yulia Frumer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. vii + 270. Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan By Yulia Frumer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. vii + 270. Japan's adoption of Western timekeeping and the Gregorian calendar…
Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire
Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace
Reviewed by: Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace: The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization David G. Wittner (bio) Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace: The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization. By Miwao Matsumoto. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xv+248. $85. No fewer than four generations of observers have studied Japan’s nineteenth-century industrialization with the intention of explaining how…
Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan
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. Through case studies of the iron and silk industries, Wittner argues that the Meiji government’s guiding principle was not simply economic development or pr…
Earthquake Nation
Reviewed by: Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930 David G. Wittner (bio) Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930. By Gregory Clancey . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+331. $49.95. On 28 October 1891 a massive earthquake shook central Japan from Osaka to Tokyo. In its wake it left the rubble of a modernizing Japan. Recently constructed, Western-style …
Papers on the History of Industry and Technology of Japan
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Papers on the History of Industry and Technology of Japan
Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan
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. Through case studies of the iron and silk industries, Wittner argues that the Meiji government’s guiding principle was not simply economic development or pr…
Earthquake Nation
Reviewed by: Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930 David G. Wittner (bio) Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930. By Gregory Clancey . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+331. $49.95. On 28 October 1891 a massive earthquake shook central Japan from Osaka to Tokyo. In its wake it left the rubble of a modernizing Japan. Recently constructed, Western-style …
Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace
Reviewed by: Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace: The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization David G. Wittner (bio) Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace: The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization. By Miwao Matsumoto. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xv+248. $85. No fewer than four generations of observers have studied Japan’s nineteenth-century industrialization with the intention of explaining how…
Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire
Making Time
Reviewed by: Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan by Yulia Frumer David Wittner (bio) Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan By Yulia Frumer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. vii + 270. Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan By Yulia Frumer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. vii + 270. Japan's adoption of Western timekeeping and the Gregorian calendar…
A Tale of Two Mills
Since the 1950s, historians have sought to explain industrial modernization in Meiji Japan as a model for developing countries. They typically attribute Japan's success to single factors such as accumulated knowledge or capital, visionary leadership, or technological choice. This article moves beyond mono-causality to examine technology transfer's role in industrial modernization. Tomioka Silk Filature and Osaka Cotton Spinning Mill make the case…
History (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Meiji period (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works)