ISBN:
0824838777
,
9780824838775
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 322 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Japan at Nature's Edge : The Environmental Context of a Global Power
DDC:
304.20952
Keywords:
Nature and civilization Congresses
;
Human ecology Congresses
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
Description / Table of Contents:
Writing Japan at nature's edge : the promises and perils of environmental history / Ian Jared MillerThe 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Papers from a conference held in the fall of 2008 near Big Sky, Montana
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Includes text in English and Japanese
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824838775
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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