Brett L Walker

Toxic Archipelago

A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brett L. Walker is Regents' Professor and department chair of history and philosophy at Montana State University, Bozeman. He is author of The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 and The Lost Wolves of Japan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780295991382
• ISBN-10: 0295991380
• Artikelnr.: 33375329

Autorenporträt

Brett Walker is the Michael P. Malone Memorial professor of history at Montana State University. He is the author of A Concise History of Japan (Cambridge UP, 2015), as well as two titles in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series, Toxic Archipelago (2010), which won the George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History from ASEH, and The Lost Wolves of Japan (2005). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Knowing Nature
1. The Agency of Insects
2. The Agency of Chemicals
3. Copper Mining and Ecological Collapse
4. Engineering Pain in the Jinzu River Basin
6. Hell at the Hojo Colliery
Conclusion
Works Cited