Ian Inkster

Ian Inkster (born 4 August 1949) is a professor of international history at Nottingham Trent University, He is the editor of the History of Technology since 2002 and frequent contributor to Taiwan's Taipei Times. Beginning in the early 1970s, he has written 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 more recently at a global level.

Ian Inkster
Born (1949-04-08) 8 April 1949
Warrington, England
Known forGlobal History
Websitehttps://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff87907.php

Life

Born in Warrington, England, raised in Khartoum, Edinburgh, Lowestoft, and Harlow, educated in England, he has had university faculty positions in UK, Australia, Japan, and Taiwan. He is married with five adult children, and alternates between living in Bloomsbury, London and in L’Escala (Spain), residing and working in Taiwan

Works

Books
  • Inkster, Ian (2001) Japanese industrialisation: historical and cultural perspectives. London: Routledge at Google Books
  • Inkster, Ian and Bryson, M. (1999) Industrial man. The life and works of Charles Sylvester, engineer, 1776–1828. Salt Lake City: Jackpot Books.
  • Inkster, Ian (1998) Technology and industrialisation: historical case studies and international perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Inkster, Ian (1997) Scientific culture and urbanisation in industrialising Britain. London: Ashgate. (Variorum Collected Studies Series)
  • Inkster, Ian (1991) Clever city: Japan, Australia and the Multifunction Polis. Sydney University Press.
  • Inkster, Ian (1991) Science and technology in history: an approach to industrialisation. London: Macmillan at Google Books
  • Inkster, Ian (1982) Science, public science and science policy in Australia circa, 1880s-1916. Canberra: Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science.
  • Inkster, Ian (1981) Science, technology and the late development effect. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies. (V.R.F. series, no. 84)
  • Inkster, Ian (1980) Japan as a development model? Relative backwardness and technological transfer. Bochum: Brockmeyer.

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