Science and the Building of a New Japan [electronic resource] / by M. Low.
Science and the Building of a New Japan
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781403976925 978-1-4039-7692-5
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/4439
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2005.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIV, 259 p. 11 illus. online resource.
Özet, vb.
This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the hybrid identity of Japanese scientists, and how they reinvented not only themselves, but also Japan. The book is special in that it uses the history of science to deal with issues relating to Japanese identity, and how it was transformed in the decades after Japan's defeat. It explores the lives and work of seven physicists, two of whom were Nobel prize winners. It makes use of little-known Occupation period documents, personal papers of physicists, and Japanese language source material.
Konu
Science __ History.
Asia __ History.
Music.
Ethnology.
Culture.
Japan __ History.
History of Science.
Asian History.
Music.
Regional Cultural Studies.
History of Japan.
Asia __ History.
Music.
Ethnology.
Culture.
Japan __ History.
History of Science.
Asian History.
Music.
Regional Cultural Studies.
History of Japan.
