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 Regents' Professor and department chairperson of history and philosophy at the University of Montana, Bozeman. He is the author of The Lost Wolves of Japan.Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History

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