Ian Inkster

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Ian Inkster is affiliated with the following schools: University of New South Wales, University of Nottingham, University of Oxford, Nottingham Trent University

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According to Wikipedia, Ian Inkster was a global historian, author and columnist. He was professor of international history at Nottingham Trent University, a prolific writer, editor of the History of Technology book series since 2002 and frequent contributor to Taiwan's Taipei Times, and South China Morning Post. Beginning in the early 1970s, he wrote many books and articles on the influence of scientific and technological change on the course of global history since the 18th century, with particular focus on the UK and Japan, and was a frequent commentator on international relations.

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Science and Technology in History: An Approach to Industrial Development (1991) (76)
Scientific Enterprise and the Colonial `Model': Observations on Australian Experience in Historical Context (1985) (73)
Metropolis and Province: Science in British Culture, 1780-1850 (1983) (61)
Science and society in the metropolis: a preliminary examination of the social and institutional context of the Askesian Society of London (1977) (51)
Marginal men: aspects of the social role of the medical community in Sheffield, 1790-1850 (1977) (41)
The social context of an educational movement: a revisionist approach to the English mechanics institutes, 1820-1850 (1976) (35)
The Public Lecture as an Instrument of Science Education for Adults--The Case of Great Britain, C. 1750-1850. (1980) (34)
Mental Capital:Transfers of Knowledge and Technique in Eighteenth Century Europe (1990) (24)
Patents as Indicators of Technological Change and Innovation — An Historical Analysis of the Patent Data 1830–1914 (2003) (23)
Science and the mechanics' institutes, 1820-50, the case of Sheffield (1975) (20)
Science and technology in history (1991) (18)
Discoveries, inventions and industrial revolutions : On the varying contributions of technologies and institutions from an international historical perspective (1996) (16)
The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850–1870 (2000) (12)
The clever city: Japan, Australia, and the multifunction polis (1991) (12)
Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760–1820 Peter M. Jones. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. xii + 260 pp., 2 tables and 12 figures. £55 (hardback). (2012) (12)
Japanese Industrialisation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (2001) (12)
London Science and the Seditious Meetings Act of 1817 (1979) (9)
Culture and technology in modern Japan (2000) (9)
Potentially Global: ‘Useful and Reliable Knowledge’ and Material Progress in Europe, 1474–1914 (2006) (9)
Prometheus bound: Technology and industrialization in Japan, China and India prior to 1914—a political economy approach (1988) (8)
Aspects of the history of science and science culture in Britain, 1780-1850 and beyond (1983) (8)
Metropolis And Province (2007) (8)
Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687-1851 (review) (2006) (8)
The development of a scientific community in Sheffield, 1790-1850: a network of people and interests (1973) (7)
MEIJI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PERSPECTIVE: REVISIONIST COMMENTS UPON THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN JAPAN (1979) (7)
The Japanese Industrial Economy: Late Development and Cultural Causation (2001) (7)
The other side of Meiji - conflict and conflict management (1988) (7)
Scientific Culture and Urbanisation in Industrialising Britain (1998) (7)
Technology in World History: Cultures of Constraint and Innovation, Emulation, and Technology Transfers (2007) (6)
Politicising the Gershenkron Schema: technology transfer, late development and the state in historical perspective (2002) (6)
Robert Goodacre's astronomy lectures (1823-1825) and the structure of scientific culture in Philadelphiacientific culture and education in Nottingham prior to 1843 (1978) (6)
Made in America But Lost to Japan: Science, Technology and Economic Performance in the Two Capitalist Superpowers (1991) (6)
Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740-1860 (2014) (5)
Seditious Science: A Reply to Paul Weindling (1981) (5)
A phase in middle class culture: phrenology in Sheffield, 1824-1850 (1977) (5)
Science instruction for youth in the industrial revolution: The informal Network in Sheffield (1973) (4)
Advocates and audience - aspects of popular astronomy in England, 1750- 1850 (1982) (4)
Potentially Global. A Story of Useful and Reliable Knowledge and Material Progress in Europe circa 1474-1912. 1 (1998) (4)
The market and beyond. Cooperation and competition in information technology in the Japanese system : Martin Fransman 333 pages (Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1990) (1992) (4)
The steam intellect societies: essays on culture, education and industry, 1820-1914 (1986) (4)
Colonial and neo-Colonial transfer of technology: perspectives on India before 1914 (1995) (4)
Appropriate technology, alternative technology and the Chinese model: terminology and analysis (1989) (3)
The institutionalist theory of economic development, technological progress and social change (1988) (3)
Exceptionalism and industrialization: Britain and its European rivals, 1688–1815 (2005) (3)
Technology transfer in the great climacteric. Machinofacture and international patenting in world development, circa 1850-1914 (1999) (3)
Potentially global: 'useful and reliable knowledge' and material progress in Europe circa, 1474-1914 (2006) (3)
Technological and Industrial Change: A Comparative Essay (2003) (3)
Catching up and hanging on: the formation of science in modern Japan (1990) (3)
THE LOW DOWN ON HIGH TECH DOWN UNDER, OR THE PLAIN PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE MULTIFUNCTION POLIS (1990) (3)
Culture, institutions and urbanity: the itinerant science lecturer in Sheffield, 1790-1850 (1976) (3)
Japan and Northeast Asia (1992) (3)
Technology as the cause of the industrial revolution: some comments (1983) (3)
Pursuing big books: technological change in global history (2000) (2)
Cultural Enterprise: Science, Steam Intellect and Social Class in Rochdale circa 1833-1900 (1988) (2)
On 'modelling' Japan for the Third World (part one) (1983) (2)
Science, technology and the late development effect : transfer mechanisms in Japan's industrialisation, circa 1850-1912 (1981) (2)
Inertia and technological change: an elementary typology (1999) (2)
Epilogue: thoughtful doing and early modern oeconomy (2007) (2)
Global ambitions; science and technology in international historical perspective, 1450-1800 (1997) (2)
Japan as a development model?: Relative backwardness and technological transfer (1980) (2)
The golden age: essays in British economic and social history, 1850-1870 (2000) (2)
Engineers as Patentees and the Cultures of Invention 1830-1914 and beyond. The Evidence from the Patent Data (2004) (2)
Technology transfer: the historical dimensions in detail (1990) (2)
Introduction: "Useful knowledge" reconsidered (2013) (2)
Intellectual dependency and the sources of invention: Britain and the Australian technological system in the 19th century (1990) (2)
Mental Capital — Transfers of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Europe (1991) (2)
Science and Technology in History: An Approach to Industrial Development. (1992) (2)
In defence of respectability: financial crime, the 'high art' criminal and the language of the courtroom 1850-1880 (2000) (1)
Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860: ‘Under the eye of the public’ (2011) (1)
Motivation and achievement: technological change and creative response in comparative industrial history (1998) (1)
Japan as a development model (1980) (1)
Machinofacture and Technical Change: The Patent Evidence (2017) (1)
Science instruction for youth and the Industrial Revolution: an informal network (1973) (1)
Introduction: Transcending boundaries: the mindful hand in the history of technology (2009) (1)
Lunacy and the industrial revolution (1980) (1)
Highly Fraught with Good to Man: patent organisation, Agency and Useful Knowledge in British Machinofacture circa 1780-1851 and Beyond (2012) (1)
Hypotheses: patterns in the economic and social history of steam intellect prior to 1914 (1985) (1)
The Scientific Enterprise: Institutions and the Diffusion of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century (1991) (1)
Technology and Industrialisation: Historical Case Studies and International Perspectives (1998) (1)
Partly solid and partly sophistical - Adam Smith as an historian of economic thought (1989) (1)
Intellectual Property, Information, and Divergences in Economic Development - Historical Patterns and Statistics circa 1421-2000. 1 (2005) (1)
Finding artisans: British and international patterns of technological innovation 1790-1914 (2004) (1)
Outline maps of knowledge (2011) (1)
Science, technology and economic development: Japanese historical experience in context (1991) (1)
‘China’s Middle Class and Taiwan (2012) (1)
Technology transfer and industrial transformation: an interpretation of the pattern of economic development, circa 1870-1914 (1996) (1)
Anthropologies of Enthusiasm: Charlotte Salwey, Shinji Ishii, and Japanese Colonialism in Formosa circa 1913-1917 (2011) (1)
The national imperative. The state, science and technology, and policy evolution, 1400-2000 (2003) (1)
Henry George, protectionism and the welfare of the working class (1990) (1)
The Ambivalent Role of Patents in Technology Development (1982) (1)
Technology transfer: the historical dimensions in detail, MetaScience (1990) (1)
The low down on high tech 'Down Under': the MFP, Prometheus (1990) (1)
'Seediq Bale’ and pride in Taiwan (2012) (1)
Technology and European Overseas Enterprise, vols 3, 6, and 7 in the series' An Expanding World The European Impact on World History 1450-1800' (1997) (1)
Cultural engineering and the industrialization of Japan, circa 1868-1912 (2010) (1)
Indigenous Resistance and the Technological Imperative: From Chemistry in Birmingham to Camphor Wars in Formosa, 1860s–1914 (2018) (1)
The support structure for Australian science, circa 1851-1916 (1988) (1)
The mindful hand goes to Japan (2009) (1)
Structural change, the Multifunctional Polis and Japanese R for Australia (1990) (1)
Science, Technology and Imperialism: (2) China and Beyond (1991) (0)
History of technology [all annual volumes from 23] (2001) (0)
A smattering of history: marginal men and the cultural context of the English Industrial Revolution (1975) (0)
Technology in Latin American History: Perspectives, Scales and Comparisons (2019) (0)
Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860: Bibliography (2011) (0)
Centre and Periphery: Science and Technology in America and Australia (1991) (0)
Science, technology and economic development: Japanese historical experience in context, Annals of Science (1991) (0)
Scientific culture and scientific education in Liverpool, 1760-1812 (1981) (0)
Japan. Cultural engineering and late development (2008) (0)
The response to relative backwardness. Bureaucrats, intellectuals and the transfer of western knowledge and technique to Meiji Japan circa 1868-1890s (1980) (0)
How Far is KMT Rule Inevitable (2012) (0)
News and Reviews (1981) (0)
Pacific partnership: creativity, industrial innovation and the proposed Japan-Australia Multifunctional Polis (1997) (0)
Techno Japan: technology, economic change and the social system in contemporary Japan (1991) (0)
Book Review:Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology Robert McC. Adams (1998) (0)
Era of Chinese soft power beckons (2011) (0)
The 'Manchester School' in Yorkshire: Economic relations between India and Sheffield in the mid-nineteenth century (1986) (0)
The steam engine [special issue] (2004) (0)
Science, Technology and the British Industrial “Decline” 1870–1970. By David Edgerton. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, for the Economic History Society, 1996. Pp. vii, 88. $29.95, cloth; $9.95, paper (1997) (0)
Aging Analytics Agency (2020) (0)
Lessons of the Past? Technology Transfer and Russian Industrialisation in Comparative Perspective (1998) (0)
Structural change, the Multifunctional Polis and Japanese R & D for Australia. by Ian Inkster (1990) (0)
The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. Tessa Morris-Suzuki (1997) (0)
Identity of engineers [special issue] (2007) (0)
China ‘Should flex its soft power’ (2013) (0)
Scientific culture and education in Nottingham prior to 1843 (1978) (0)
Introduction: A Lustrous Age? (2017) (0)
Michael Hunter, Science and Society in Restoration England (Cambridge at the University Press, 1981), pp. xii + 233: £5.95 (1983) (0)
Industrial man. The life and works of Charles Sylvester, engineer, 1776-1828 (1999) (0)
Intellectual property, information, and divergences in economic development - institutional patterns and outcomes circa 1421-2000 (2009) (0)
Science and technology in history: an approach to industrialisation (1991) (0)
The context of steam intellect in Britain (1985) (0)
The continuing story of foreigners in Meiji, Japan (1980) (0)
Chinese G20 misstep a policy loss (2011) (0)
Introduction to Part II: Technology (2017) (0)
Science and the 'colonial model': Australian experience in historical perspective (1985) (0)
The Revd John Aikin senior (2011) (0)
Promethean futures: the biotechnological challenge and the Japanese model (1990) (0)
Lunacy and the Industrial Revolution. Programme notes. (1980) (0)
Collective biography and technological transfer (1981) (0)
The message and the massage - the mythology of Japan's industrialisation (1983) (0)
Abstracts (1957) (0)
The mindful hand in global perspective (2009) (0)
Education must find its direction (2013) (0)
Social class and popularised culture in Sheffield during the 1840s (1983) (0)
Education, attitudes and the armed forces: a cultural-technological and comparative historical analysis, Languages, Literary Studies and International Studies: an International Journal (2010) (0)
The West had science and the rest had not? Queries of the mindful hand (2009) (0)
Agricultural growth and the late development effect in Japan (1980) (0)
A Bright and Savage Land: Scientists in Colonial Australia by Ann Moyal (Collins, Sydney, 1986), pp. 192, $45.00, ISBN 0 00 217555X (1988) (0)
Michio Morishima, Why Has Japan ‘Succeeded’? Western Technology and the Japanese Ethos (Cambridge at the University Press, 1982), pp. ix + 207: £12.50 (1984) (0)
Taiwan must find political space (2011) (0)
Politicians dream the impossible (2012) (0)
Catching up and taking over: structural change, the technopolis concept and Japanese R&D for Australia (1996) (0)
Engineering identity, intellectual property, and information systems in industrialization, circa 1830-1914 (2009) (0)
Science and Technology in the British Industrial Revolution (1991) (0)
Patents in history [special issue] (2002) (0)
Robert Goodacre and popular astronomy, 1777-1835 (1980) (0)
Special issue on ‘Useful and reliable knowledge’ History of Technology (2012) (0)
Education, human capital and technical change in Japan - a skeptical evaluation, East Asia (1993) (0)
Book Review:The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies Francesca Bray (1988) (0)
Industrialisation: Winners and Losers (1991) (0)
Plans for the present and fear of the future: problems of the Multifunctional Polis in Australia (1991) (0)
Sidney Pollard, The Integration of the European Economy since 1815 (London, Allen and Unwin, 1981), pp. 109: $8.95 (1984) (0)
Prologue 1878: Anxious visions in Meiji Japan (2001) (0)
Introduction. Patent Agency: Problems and Perspectives (2012) (0)
History of technology in Latin America (2019) (0)
Science, Technology and Culture in the Midlands During the Industrial Revolution (2020) (0)
Technology in history: case studies and concepts circa 1700-2000 (2003) (0)
Forging the links: small business, R and the MFP (1990) (0)
Agricultural Growth and the Late Development Effect in Japan — A Note (1980) (0)
Introduction: Science, Technology and Economic Development (1991) (0)
Technology, Economic Backwardness and Industrialisation — the Case of Japan (1991) (0)
Science Has No National Borders: Harry C. Kelly and the Reconstruction of Science and Technology in Postwar Japan. Hideo Yoshikawa , Joanne Kauffman , Masao Yoshida (1996) (0)
Early Modern Europe (1998) (0)
Global Transformations. (Book Reviews: Science and Technology in History. An Approach to Industrial Development.) (1993) (0)
Estimating a Public Sphere: Intellectual and Technical Associations at the Time of the Great Exhibition (2017) (0)
Book Review:Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: A Source Book H. M. Collins (1984) (0)
See China as yesterday’s Taiwan (2012) (0)
Longevity Industry (2020) (0)
Late development revisited: aspects of international technology transfer and Russian industrialisation (1996) (0)
Breaking out of the Strait-jacket (2011) (0)
THE GUNPOWDER AGE: CHINA, MILITARY INNOVATION, AND THE RISE OF THE WEST IN WORLD HISTORY (2018) (0)
China’s divided route to dominance (2012) (0)
Italian technology from the Renaissance to the twentieth century (2014) (0)
The Aikin family, retrospectively (2011) (0)
Policies, patents and reliable knowledge – an institutional approach to the climacteric, 1850-1914 (2008) (0)
Book Review:Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts David J. Hess (1996) (0)
Twentieth-Century Aftermaths: Science, Technology and Economic Development (1991) (0)
Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan (review) (2009) (0)
Civil engineering and the admiralty (1982) (0)
Economy, Technology, and the Huttonian Enlightenment: Approaches to China in the International Political Economy since the Early Twentieth Century (2015) (0)
Prometheus bound: science, technology and industrialisation in Japan, China and India - a political economy approach (1988) (0)
Commentary on the iron and steel industry (1992) (0)
The development of science and technology essay, The Cambridge encyclopedia of Australia (1995) (0)
Book Review:The Japanese and Western Science Masao Watanabe, Otto Theodor Benfey (1992) (0)
Culture, action and institutions: on exploring the historical economic success of England and Japan (1995) (0)
Japan: taking over and staying ahead, (1992) (0)
Popularised culture and steam intellect, 1820-1850s (1985) (0)
The resources of decisive technological change: reflections on the steam engine from Watt to Stephenson (2004) (0)
Christine Macleod. Inventing the Industrial Revolution; The English Patent System, 1660–1800. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988, Pp. x + 302. ISBN 0-521-30104-1. £25.00, $44.50. (1990) (0)
Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860: Notes on the editors and contributors (2011) (0)
Maxine Berg. The Age of Manufactures. Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain, 1700–1820 . London: Fontana Paperback, 1985. Pp. 378. ISBN 0-00-686019-2. £4.95. (1987) (0)
Advocates and audience: astronomy in England, circa 1750-1850 (1982) (0)
Relative backwardness and revolution. A note on Marx, history and the transition to socialism (1992) (0)
The democratisation of invention: patents and copyrights in American economic development, 1790–1920 – B. Zorina Khan (2006) (0)
Epilogue: Technology’s Activists and Global Dynamics (2018) (0)
Nathan Reingold & Marc Rothenberg (eds). Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison . Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 398. ISBN 0-87474-785-6. (1988) (0)
Crowding out other election issues (2011) (0)
Science, Technology and Imperialism: (1) India (1991) (0)
Science, public science and science policy in Australia circa, 1880s-1916 (1982) (0)
Science, technology and the late development effect (1981) (0)
Technology in China (2009) (0)
The trouble with technology: comments on the experience of Singapore under Entrepot capitalism (2000) (0)
Eikoku to Nihon no Sangyo Kakumei ni Okeru Gijutsu Henkaku ni miru Shakaiteki Haikei ni tsuite no Hikaku Kento (Comparative treatment of the social context of technological change during the industrial revolutions of Britain and Japan) (1993) (0)
Antitheses on peculiarity - or, a dialogue on labour organisation and the Japanese economy, circa 1960-1980, East Asia (1993) (0)
An imperfection of institutions (2002) (0)
Accidents and Barriers: Technology between Europe, China and Japan for 500 Years (1998) (0)
Seditious science: a reply to Paul Weindling, British Journal History of Science (1981) (0)
Lunacy and the Industrial Revolution [series of 5 papers] (1972) (0)
Oriental enlightenment: the problematic military experiences and cultural claims of Count Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky in Formosa during 1771 (2010) (0)
Inertia and technological change: an elementary typology, Industrial history and technological development in Europe (1999) (0)
Britain and the single factor thesis once more: a comment on Kristine Bruland (1988) (0)
Book Review:Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan William M. Tsutsui (2000) (0)
A Japanese affair (1980) (0)
Seeking DPP chair to save politics (2012) (0)
The development of science and technology [essay] (1994) (0)
Engineering disasters [special issue] (2006) (0)
Technology, Economic Backwardness and Industrialisation — General Schema (1991) (0)
Into the twentieth century: patterns in the relations between science, technology and the state during the early industrialisation process (1996) (0)
R. S. Neale, Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972), pp. 200: $8.95 (1975) (0)
Nurturing a Chinese middle class (2011) (0)
Technology and culture during the first climacteric (2009) (0)
Variations on a theme by Thackray (1982) (0)
Review Article: Technology and Culture during the First Climacteric (2009) (0)
James E. McClellanIII (Editor).The Applied‐Science Problem.(Based on papers presented at a workshop at the Stevens Institute of Technology, 6–8 May 2005.). 221 pp., illus. Jersey City, N.J.: Jensen/Daniels Publishers, 2008. $18.95 (paper). (2009) (0)

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