Toxic Archipelago A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

Name: Toxic Archipelago A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
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ISBN: 9780295989549

ISBN-10: 0295989548

ISBN-13: 9780295989549

Edition: 2010

Authors: Brett L. Walker, William Cronon

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The Earth's environment is interlaced with complex, constructed ecological pathways that link industrial facilities and human consumers. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human who was transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely through mines, factory sites, and rice paddies and more directly into human bodies.Toxic Archipelagoexplores the relationship between the causes of colossal toxic pollution and the manner in which pain caused by pollution insults porous human bodies. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of…

Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 3/8/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.24" wide x 9.27" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.232



Foreword: The Pain of a Poisoned World



Preface


Prologue


Introduction: Knowing Nature



The Agency of Insects



The Agency of Chemicals



Copper Mining and Ecological Collapse



Engineering Pain in the Jinz&ubar; River Basin



Mercury's Offspring



Hell at the H&obar;j&obar; Colliery


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index