Technology and the culture of progress in Meiji Japan - Wittner, David G. (Abingdon, Oxon, OX ; New York : Routledge, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Industrialization -- Japan; Industries -- Social aspects -- Japan; Technology -- Social aspects -- Japan; Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1868-1918.