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Title: | The Role of British Agents and Engineers in the Early Westernization of Japan with a Focus on the Robinson and Waters Brothers | Contributor(s): | Vivers, Meg I (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1179/1758120614Z.00000000057 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17141 | Abstract: | Much has been written about the many Western experts, particularly engineers, who travelled to Japan and contributed to the country's modernization in the years following the Meiji Restoration (1868). In this paper it is argued that more emphasis could be placed on the contribution made, not only by experts in situ, but also by agents who remained in the West and sent out instructions and materials, enabling extraordinary changes under the new centralized Japanese government. The author traces the achievements of the Waters and Robinson families who, as agents, engineers, entrepreneurs and opportunists, combined to contribute to a decade of advancement now known to Japanese historians as the Waters era. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology, 85(1), p. 115-139 | Publisher: | Maney Publishing | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1750-3523 1758-1206 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210302 Asian History 210305 British History 120103 Architectural History and Theory |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430301 Asian history 430304 British history 330104 Architectural history, theory and criticism |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 861403 Industrial Machinery and Equipment 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified 861404 Mining Machinery and Equipment |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 241204 Industrial machinery and equipment | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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