Add this copy of Live Machines: Hired Foreigners and Meiji Japan to cart. $352.95, like new condition, Sold by RareNonFiction, ships from Ladysmith, BC, CANADA, published 1980 by University of British Columbia Press.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0774801158. 210 pages. Footnotes. Selected bibliography. Index. "Examines the significance and extent of Japan's policy in hiring foreign experts; the changing emphasis from more general advisers to specialists; the regulatory machinery developed to deal with the sometimes recalcitrant Europeans and Americans; the image these employees had of their own value; and their worth in the eyes of their Japanese employers...Adds an important dimension to both the understanding of Japanese history and the process of planned modernization. No other specialist outside of Japan has attempted sucha comprehensive study to date."-from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket. A quality copy.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Meiji period Japan History Foreign Workers Aliens Technical Assistance.
