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The Muscle-Powered Empire Organic Transport in Japan and Its Colonies, 1850 – 1930

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This dissertation investigates the muscle-powered transport technologies that pervaded the Japanese empire. It examines the production, adoption, evolution, and decline of draft animals, rickshaws, human-powered railways, and push-car railways in Japan and colonial Taiwan, 1850-1930. Invented in Tokyo in 1870, rickshaws proliferated across Asia and became a symbol of modern...

Subject:

History, Asian history, and Asian studies

Creator:

Li, Youjia

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/07/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15712 and etdadmin_upload_843304