Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order

by John DiMoia and Hiromi Mizuno

Book Overview

Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent and dynamic events of the 20th century. The book argues that what continued to operate throughout these tumultuous eras were engineering networks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350063924
• ISBN13: 9781350063921
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"