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Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power
Ian Jared Miller (Ed.)
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Description for Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power
Paperback. Papers from a conference held in the fall of 2008 near Big Sky, Montana. Num Pages: 322 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFS; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Univ Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824838768
SKU
V9780824838768
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