Live Machines: Hired Foreigners and Meiji Japan
Live Machines: Hired Foreigners and Meiji Japan
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1980
- ISBN
- 0774801158
- Place of printing
- Vacouver, BC, Canada
- Author
- Jones, Hazel J.
- Publishers
- University of British Columbia Press
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Edition
- F First Edition
- Keyword
- Meiji period Japan History Foreign Workers Aliens Technical, Assistance History Asia
- Binding description
- J H Very Good Hardcover
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- First edition
- True
Description
210 pages. Footnotes. Selected bibliography. Index. "Examines the significance and extent of Japan's policy in hiring foreign experts; the changing emphasis from more general advisers to specialists; the regulatory machinery developed to deal with the sometimes recalcitrant Europeans and Americans; the image these employees had of their own value; and their worth in the eyes of their Japanese employers. Adds an important dimension to both the understanding of Japanese history and the process of planned modernization. No other specialist outside of Japan has attempted sucha comprehensive study to date." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Book
