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Yukichi Fukuzawa and the Making of the Modern World
My book The Making of the Modern World; Visions from the West and East
was published by Palgrave in 2002. It discussed the work of two major writers
who had dedicated their lives to trying to answer the riddle of how our modern
world originated and what its future might be. These were F.W.Maitland and
Yukichi Fukuzawa.
The book was only modestly successful and never went into paperback. By
combining these thinkers, the distinctive contribution of each one may have
been somewhat muffled. This long and expensive book did not reach a wider
audience who might be potentially interested in one or other of the authors
treated, but not both of them at once.
So I have decided to re-issue each part as a downloadable electronic book.
This book on Fukuzawa was originally published in a section of five chapters,
which have now been broken down into smaller chapters
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Letters to Lily: Some Background Walks
A set of background 'walks' explaining how I came to write 18 of the 'Letters to Lily
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F.W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World
The first edition of this book was as part of The Making of the Modern World; Visions from the West and East (2002). Perhaps partly because the book contained a great deal else, a chapter on Maine, another on Durkheim, and seven chapters on the Japanese
philosophical reformer Yukichi Fukuzawa, it was not only expensive, but the Maitland sections were somewhat overlaid. It was ever published in paper covers. This book is now made available for those who are more specifically
interested in Maitlandâs contribution to solving the mystery of how our modern
world emerged. I have not updated the ideas or references, although a number
of books have come out since I wrote it. I have merely re-arranged the first and
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last chapters, and omitted the chapters on Maine and Durkheim. I have also
made some minor alterations to grammar and tried to make several ideas a little
clearer
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Diary of an Examiner
Some thoughts on the Cambridge University examining process for undergraduates, written in 200
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Lakeland Life 1954-1960
An account of life in the Lake District, in Wordsworth's valley, in the second half of the 1960's
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Oxford Postgraduate 1963-6
An account of doing a D.Phil. at Oxford University between 1963 and 196
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