Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace: The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization

by Miwao Matsumoto

The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this revolution and the structure and function of 'technology gatekeepers' during the transfer of marine science and technology from Britain to Japan.

264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 27, 2006

Reviews

[Yeast · Rating 2 out of 5]

Has the potential to add insights within the military-industrial-university complex to the history of technology in Japan, but somehow gets sabotaged by the trivial details and tedious repetition.