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

Name: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power
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ISBN: 9780824836924

ISBN-10: 0824836928

ISBN-13: 9780824836924

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ian Jared Miller, Julia Adeney Thomas, Brett L. Walker

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Japan at Nature's Edge 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 ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth's environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan's March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of Japan and its global connections. The work is an environmental history in the broadest sense of the term because it contains writing by environmental anthropologists, a legendary Japanese…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 376
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English