Paul Kreitman (New York Columbia University)

Japan's Ocean Borderlands

Nature and Sovereignty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global environmental history, Paul Kreitman explores how the politics of conservation and sovereignty have entangled on islands from Hawai'i to the South China Sea, from the mid-nineteenth century till today.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Oceanic Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781108489706
• ISBN-10: 1108489702
• Artikelnr.: 66345400

Autorenporträt

Paul Kreitman teaches modern Japanese history at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Maps; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Naming Conventions; Introduction; 1. Bonins of Contention: Extraterritorial Empire and Borderland Citizenship in the 19th Century Pacific; 2. The Race to Marcus Island: Commodities and Colonisation in the North Pacific, 1885
1902; 3. Bird and Sovereignty Conservation in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, 1898
1911; 4. Sand Dunes and Soldiers: From Phosphate Mining to National Defence (1902
1939); 5. Disaster: The Abandonment of Japan's Remote Islands, 1902
1945; 6. Resurrecting the Torishima Albatross: Wild Birds and Sovereignty in Postwar Japan; 7. The Nature of the Senkaku Islands: Biodiversity Conservation in Okinawa, 1945
2013; Epilogue: Islands and Oceans; Appendix: Japanese islands abandoned, 1868-2013; Select Bibliography; Index.