Author: Columbia University. Library
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: United States. Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Robert Hellyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478050
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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This volume examines the Meiji Restoration through a global history lens to re-interpret the formation of a globally-cast, Japanese nation-state.

Author: Columbia University. Libraries
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Columbia University. Libraries
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Author: Columbia University. Libraries
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Author: Columbia University. East Asian Library
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: John Andrew Black
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1800643594
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present is a unique study: the first by a Western scholar to place the long-term development of Japanese infrastructure alongside an analysis of its evolving political economy. Drawing from New Institutional Economics, Black offers a historically informed critique of contemporary planning using the example of Japan’s historical institutions, their particular biases, and the power they have exerted over national and local transport, to identify how reformed institutional arrangements might develop more sustainable and equitable transport services. With chapters addressing each major form of transport, Black examines the predominant role of institutions and individuals – from seventeenth-century shoguns to post-war planners – in transforming Japan’s maritime infrastructure, its roads and waterways, and its adoption of rail and air transport. Using a multidisciplinary, comparative, and chronological approach, the book consults a range of technical, cultural, and political sources to tease out these interactions between society and technology. This spirited new contribution to transport studies will attract readers interested in institutional power, the history of transport, and the development of future infrastructure, as well as those with a general interest in Japan.