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1. Metropolis and Province

   Science in British Culture, 1780 - 1850

   Edited by Ian Inkster, Jack Morrell

   This collection of case studies, focusing on British scientific culture during the first industrial revolution, explores the social basis of science in the period and asks why such an extraordinarily rich variety of cultural-scientific experience should have flourished at the time. The book...

   Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge
2. The Japanese Industrial Economy

   Late Development and Cultural Causation

   By Ian Inkster

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   This book reveals that the manipulation of culture was of more importance than the character of the original cultural stock in explaining Japan's modern industrialization. Thus the features of private enterprise culture that are so often isolated as keys to the nation's historical competitiveness...

   Published September 19th 2001 by Routledge
3. Japanese Industrialisation

   Historical and Cultural Perspectives

   By Ian Inkster

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Published February 21st 2001 by Routledge