Alexander Williamson a victorian chemist and the making of modern japan.
Alexander Williamson was professor of chemistry at UCL (1849-87) and a leading scientist of his time. He taught and cared for visiting Japanese students, thereby assisting them with their goal of modernising Japan. This short, accessible biography explores his contribution to nineteenth-century scie...
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| Language: | English |
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London
UCL Press
2021, 2021
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 A Traveller of Intelligence
- 2 Birkbeck Laboratory at UCL
- 3 The Chōshū Five
- 4 The Satsuma Nineteen
- 5 The Fate of the Early Students
- 6 Bridge to Japan's Modernisation
- 7 Towards 'Unity Out of Difference'
- Appendix: The Names of the Chōshū Five and Satsuma Nineteen
- Afterword: Serendipity: The Ever-Widening Circle
- Further Reading
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover