Ian Inkster


Ian Inkster 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.

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, residing and working in Taiwan

Works

Books