Explorations: Iron Horse: Reasons for the speed of Japanese industrialization

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Description: Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

England industrialized some 80 years before other European countries; Japan likewise some 80 years before other parts of Asia. Some of the factors for this in relation to Japan, including social structure and history, are described by Alan Macfarlane.
 
Created: 2018-03-08 16:33
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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