Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Rückseite Titelblatt: Published to accompany the exhibition "Cars: Accelerating the Modern World" at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 23 November 2019 to 19 April 2020

Note: "Der Hauptteil ist bislang weitgehend unerforschten, historischen Stücken aus der Textilsammlung unserers Hauses gewidmet, die hier großteils erstmals publiziert werden. In Gegenüberstellung zum eigenen Bestand schließt sich eine Vorstellung zeitgenössischer Stickereien an." - (aus dem Vorwort), Ausstellung vom 21.11.2019-29.03.2020 , Literaturverzeichnis , Text deutsch, Vorwort und Zusammenfassungen englisch

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: "Originally published: Storia delle prime autostrade italiane (1922-1943) in 2007 by Nuova Trauben Edizioni, Turin , Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index

Note: eng

Note: Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 2009) under the title: Light touches : cultural practises of illumination, London 1780-1840 , Literaturangaben. - Index

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Japan in a new-found world , Elusive islands of silver : Japan in the early European geographic imagination , Mapping the margins of Japan , The creators and historical context of the oldest maps of the Ryukyu kingdom , The introduction of Dutch surveying instruments in Japan , The European career of Ishikawa Ryūsen's map of Japan , A new map of Japan and its acceptance in Europe , The arms and legs of the realm , Visualizing the political world through provincial maps , Fixing sacred borders : villagers, monks, and their two sovereign masters , Self-portrait of a village , Characteristics of premodern urban space , Evolving cartography of an ancient capital , Historical landscapes of Osaka , The urban landscape of early Edo in an East Asian context , Spatial visions of status , The social landscape of Edo , What is a street? , Locating Japan in a Buddhist world , Picturing maps : the "rare and wondrous" bird's-eye views of Kuwagata Keisai , An artist's rendering of the divine Mount Fuji , Rock of ages : traces of the gods in Akita , Cosmology and science in Japan's last Buddhist world map , Fun with moral mapping in the mid-nineteenth century , A travel map adjusted to urgent circumstances , Legendary landscape at the Kitayama Palace , New routes through old Japan , Seeking accuracy : the first modern survey of Japan's coast , No foreigners allowed : the shogunate's hydrographic chart of the "holy" Ise Bay , Indigenous knowledge in the mapping of the northern frontier regions , Mamiya Rinzō and the cartography of empire , Outcastes and peasants on the edge of modernity , Converging lines : Yamakawa Kenjirō's fire map of Tokyo , Mapping death and destruction in 1923 , Rebuilding Tokyo after the great Kanto earthquake , Shinjuku 1931 : a new type of urban space , Mapping the Hōjō colliery explosion of 1914 , Cultivating progress in colonial Taiwan , Showcase thoroughfares, wretched alleys : the uneven development of colonial Seoul (Keijō) , Imperial expansion and city planning : visions for Datong in the 1930s , A two-timing map , Visions of a new order in the Asia-Pacific , Blackened cities, blackened maps , The occupied city , Sacred space on postwar Fuji , Tange Kenzō's proposal for rebuilding Hiroshima , Visions of the good city in the rapid growth period , On the road in Olympic-era Tokyo , Traversing Tokyo by subway , The uses of a free paper map in the internet age , Tsukiji at the end of an era , Probabilistic earthquake hazard maps , Citizens' radiation maps after the tsunami , Run & escape! , Postmortem cartography : "stillbirths" and the Meiji state , Reconstructing provincial maps , The art of making oversize graphic maps , Engl.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , T-bucket terrors to respectable rebels : hot rodders and drag racers in Vancouver BC, 1948-1965 , Automobile advertisements : the magical and the mundane , SUV advertising : constructing identities and practices , Bad impressions : the will to concrete and the projectile economy of cities , The safety race : transitions to the fourth age of the automobile , Implementing restraint : automobile safety and the US debate over technological and social fixes , Mind that child : childhood, traffic and walking in automobilized space , The politics of mobility : de-essentializing automobility and contesting urban space , The chilean way to modernity : private roads, fast cars, neoliberal bodies , Driven to drive : cars and the problem of compulsory consumption , Mobility as a positional good : implications for transport policy and planning , The global intensification of motorization and its impacts on urban social ecologies , Post-car mobilities

Note: Impressum: "This book is an English translation of excerpts from "Showa zenki no kagaku shisō shi" published in Japanese by Keiso Shobo Publishing co., Ltd in 2011" , "This book is an English translation of excerpts from 'Showa zenki no kagaku shisō shi,' published in Japanese by Keiso Shobo Publishing Co., Ltd. in 2011. The English editions comprises Introduction (Osamu Kanamori), Chapter 1 (Takuji Okamoto), Chapter 2 (Masanori Kaji), and Chapter 4 (Shin Chang-Geon) of the Japanese edition"--Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-314) and indexes , Introduction: A Portrait of the History of Scientific Thought , Chapter 1. Nuclear And Elementary Particle Physics: The Evolution Of A Competitive View Of Science , Chapter 2. The Formation of Japan's Tradition Of Organic Chemistry Research With Rikō Majima , Chapter 3. The Formation And Development Of The Self-Image Of Kampō Medicine In Japan: The Relationship Between Showa-Period Kampō And Science , A Portrait of the History of Scientific Thought , Towards a Chronicle of the History of Scientific Thought , From the Inception of Quantum Mechanics to the Nobel Prize of Hideki Yukawa , In the Beginning: The Promise of the History of Scientific Thought in Twentieth Century Japanese Chemistry , Situating the Issue , The Historical Foundation of Showa Kampo Medicine , The Origin and Self-Image of the "East Asian Medicine" Movement , Eliminating Korean Influence from the New Oriental Medicine , Conclusion , Aus dem Japanischen übersetzt

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 305-339 , Each Age Gets the Thought It NeedsForagers ; Farmers ; Fossil Fuels ; The Evolution of Values : Biology, Culture, and the Shape of Things to Come ; On the Ideology of Imagining That "Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs" , But What Was It Really Like? : The Limitations of Measuring Historical Values , Eternal Values, Evolving Values, and the Value of the Self , When the Lights Go Out : Human Values after the Collapse of Civilization , My Correct Views on Everything

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-268) and index

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Nebentitel in arabischer Schrift , Includes bibliographical references (page 312)