Broschiertes Buch

Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present

Beschreibung

How has the human-nature relationship changed over time in Japan? How does Japan’s environmental history compare with that of other countries, or that of the world as a whole? This volume attempts to answer these questions through a series of case studies by leading Japanese and Western historians, geographers, archaeologists, and climatologists.

Autor

Bruce L. Batten is Professor of Japanese History at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, Japan and the former director of the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan. He is a specialist on ancient and medieval Japan and is the author of To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions and Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300 Philip C. Brown is Professor of History at The Ohio State University, USA. He is a specialist in early modern and modern Japanese history and focuses on developments affecting rural Japan. He is the author of Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain and Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oregon State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9780870718014
• ISBN-10: 0870718010
• Artikelnr.: 41883395