Conquest of Ainu Lands Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800

Name: Conquest of Ainu Lands Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800
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ISBN: 9780520248342

ISBN-10: 0520248341

ISBN-13: 9780520248342

Edition: 2003

Authors: Brett L. Walker

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This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu--the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago--at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. Inspired by "new Western" historians of the United States, Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. By framing his study between the cultural and ecological worlds of the Ainu before and after two centuries of sustained contact with the Japanese, the author demonstrates with great clarity just how far the Ainu were incorporated into the Japanese…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English