Japan at Nature's Edge : The Environmental Context of a Global Power /

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This book is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese id...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Walker, Brett L., 1967- (Editor ), Thomas, Julia Adeney, 1958- (Editor ), Miller, Ian Jared, 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Honʼyaku iin shachū > Japan
Naturkatastrophe
Naturverständnis
Umweltbelastung
Nature and civilization.
Human ecology.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Nature et civilisation > Japon > Congres.
Écologie humaine > Japon > Congres.
Nature and civilization > Japan > Congresses.
Human ecology > Japan > Congresses.
Japan.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Writing Japan at nature's edge : the promises and perils of environmental history / Ian Jared Miller
  • The pelagic empire : reconsidering Japanese expansion / William M. Tsutsui
  • From meat to machine oil : the nineteenth-century development of whaling in Wakayama / Jakobina Arch
  • Fisheries build up the nation : maritime environmental encounters between Japan and China / Micah Muscolino
  • Talking sulfur dioxide : air pollution and the politics of science in late Meiji Japan / Takehiro Watanabe
  • Constructing nature / Philip C. Brown
  • Toroku : mountain dreams, chemical nightmares / Timothy S. George
  • Fecal matters : prolegomenon to a history of shit in Japan / David L. Howell
  • Weathering Fuji : marriage, meteorology, and the Meiji bodyscape / Andrew Bernstein
  • Animal histories : stranger in a Tokyo canal / Christine L. Marran
  • Inventorying nature : Tokugawa Yoshimune and the sponsorship of honzōgaku in eighteenth-century Japan / Federico Marcon
  • Japanese literature and environmental crises / Karen Thornber
  • Japanese environmental policy : lessons from experience and remaining problems / Ken'ichi Miyamoto
  • An envirotechnical disaster : negotiating nature, technology, and politics at Fukushima / Sara B. Pritchard
  • Postcrisis Japanese nuclear policy : from top-down directives to bottom-up activism / Daniel P. Aldrich
  • Using Japan to think globally : the natural subject of history and its hopes / Julia Adeney Thomas.

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