Science and the Building of a New Japan

by Morris Low

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349530557
• ISBN13: 9781349530557
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"