Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace

The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization

M. Matsumoto (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2006 | 2006 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781403936875 (ISBN)

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The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this revolution and the structure and function of 'technology gatekeepers' during the transfer of marine science and technology from Britain to Japan.

MIWAO MATSUMOTO is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Tokyo, Japan.

List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Problems and Approaches The Technology Gatekeepers: The Role of the Navy and Mitsubishi in the Ship Revolution The Emergence of the Japanese Military-Industrial-University Complex: Technology Gatekeepers Combine 'Spin-on' and Latecomers' Advantages Reconsidered: British Development and Japanese Transfer in Social Context 'Spin-off' in the Nationalization of R & D: The Recasting of the British System in an Industrializing Japan Conclusion: Beyond Success or Failure Appendix Notes and References Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.3.2006
Reihe/Serie	St Antony's Series
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 248 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-13	9781403936875 / 9781403936875
Zustand	Neuware