The Japanese Connexion
Engineering in Tokyo, London, and Glasgow at the End of the Nineteenth Century(Presidential Address, 1980)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8392397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William H Brock (0000-0002-6012-7316, University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 227-244 |
| Publication date | 1981-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007087400018707 |
| OpenAlex | W2156063466 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
That the export of Scottish engineers and engineering teachers to Japan in the 1870s aided that country's astonishingly rapid process of modernization from a feudal to a capitalist, industrialized society will not occasion surprise or dissent. As the Japan weekly mail editorialized in 1878: In no direction has Japan symbolised her advance towards assimilation of the civilisation of the Western world more emphatically than in that of applied science
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 1985 - 1992 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |