Yukichi Fukuzawa and the Making of the Modern World

by Alan Macfarlane

Yukichi Fukuzawa is arguably the greatest Japanese socialthinker of the last three centuries. In numerous books, inparticular An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1973) andAutobiography (1972) he outlined his many ideas, not leaston the raised status of women.By setting up bookshops, universities, schools, modernaccounting, and modern manufacturing he became oneof the principal architects of modern Japan, where hisimage is still on the highest-denomination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1986029379
• ISBN13: 9781986029377
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"