The Quest for Civilization: Encounters with Dutch Jurisprudence, Political Economy, and Statistics at the Dawn of Modern Japan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004245365)

Ōkubo Takeharu, Ph.D. (2004), Tokyo Metropolitan University, is Associate Professor of the History of Asian and Japanese Political Thought at Keio University, Japan. He previously taught at Meiji University. He has published widely on the intellectual history of cultural exchange between Europe and East Asia, including Kindai Nihon no Seiji Kōsō to Oranda (University of Tokyo Press, 2010), the original Japanese edition of this book.

David Noble studied modern Asian and European history and Japanese language and literature at the University of Chicago and Princeton University.