Ian Inkster

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Ian Inkster
Born	(1949-04-08) 8 April 1949 (age 72) Warrington, England
Known for	Global History
Website	https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff87907.php

Ian Inkster (born 4 August 1949) is a global historian, author and columnist. He is 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 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 is a frequent commentator on international relations.

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^{[citation needed]}

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.

See also[]

• List of University of London people
• List of historians

External links[]

• University of London profile
• Podcast: Iain Inkster interviewed on Chairman Mao's legacy

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