Wittner, David G. <br/><br/>
Technology and the culture of progress in Meiji Japan / 
David G. Wittner. 
 - Abingdon, Oxon, OX ;  New York :  Routledge,  2007. 
 - xix, 199 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Tradition and modernization -- Iron machines and brick buildings: the material culture of silk reeling -- Smelting for civilization: technical choice and the modernization of the Iron industry -- Bunmei kaika to gijutsu: technology's role in "civilization and enlightenment" -- From technological determinism. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415433754 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Industrialization--Japan.<br/>Industries--Social aspects--Japan.<br/>Technology--Social aspects--Japan.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Economic conditions--1868-1918.