Science and the Building of a New Japan by Low, M.

Science and the Building of a New Japan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403968319)

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Science and the Building of a New Japan by Low, M.

Science and the Building of a New Japan

$54.99
Science and the Building of a New Japan by Low, M.

Science and the Building of a New Japan

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. A history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the hybrid identity of Japanese scientists, and how they reinvented not only themselves, but also Japan in the decades after its defeat. Low explores the lives and work of seven physicists, two of whom were Nobel prize winners, and makes use of little-known Occupation period documents, personal papers of physicists, and Japanese language source material.

Author: M. Low
ISBN-10: 1403968314
ISBN-13: 9781403968319
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2005
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.92w x 0.80d
By M. Low
By M. Low
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MORRIS LOW is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is co-author of Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan (CUP, 1999) and co-editor of Asian Masculinities: The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan (Routledge Curzon, 2003) and editor of a three-volume anthology Science, Technology and R&D in Japan (Routledge, 2001).

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