Books by Benjamin Duke

This is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, who was appointed by the Japanese government as Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan in 1873. This fascinating story uncovers a little-known link between Rutgers University and Japan.

Presents an analysis of the creation of the Japanese national school system based primarily on Japanese-language documents, a major step forward in the scholarship on this subject.