{"product_id":"strands-of-modernization-david-b-sicilia-9781487509088","title":"Strands of Modernization: The Circulation of Technology and Business Practices in East Asia, 1850-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw extraordinary transfer and diffusion of industry- and transportation-related technology, and business methods. While most scholarship on nineteenth-century technology transfer beyond Europe and North America has focused on the West-to-East movement of artifacts, skills, and knowledge, \u003ci\u003eStrands of Modernization\u003c\/i\u003e considers the transfer of technology and business methods within East Asia in the period between approximately 1850 and 1920.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlighting currents moving in multiple directions, contributors expand upon conventional notions of what qualifies as a \"technology\" or a \"business practice,\" looking more broadly at skills, systems of technology, tacit knowledge, and the ideologies and other belief systems with which they interact. The core ambition driving \u003ci\u003eStrands of Modernization\u003c\/i\u003e is to illuminate processes of adaption, versus adoption, that occur when technology and business practices cross sociocultural boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David B. Sicilia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487509081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487509088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"David B. Sicilia","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44127177179391,"sku":"9781487509088","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_187f1bb9-f484-4acd-aabd-50ebfc812f07.jpg?v=1687452256","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strands-of-modernization-david-b-sicilia-9781487509088","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}