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Author : Kenneth Strong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135318949
Recounts the lifelong struggle of the 19th-century pioneer environmental conservationist.
Author : Kenneth Strong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 187341014X
Tanaka Shozo was a leader in demands for protection of the Japanese environment at the turn of the twentieth century. The author argues that he was, in fact, the world's first conservationist pioneer. The self-educated son of a peasant, pigheaded, emotional, impetuous and politically naive, he was elected to the Diet and established his place in history by waging an extended and costly campaign against the gross pollution of his constituents' food, water, and land by an enormous and important copper mine. This biography - the first on Tanaka Shozo in English - is also the first detailed study of how the letter and spirit of the Japanese constitution of 1889 took root outside the capital. Called in his own time an unrealistic madman for fighting a battle we and the Japanese now take far more seriously, Tanaka Shozo is likened by Kenneth Strong not to the fanatics of history but to such great humanitarians as Mahatma Gandi and Danilo Dolci.
Author : Brett L. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295803012
Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies. Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations; poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents; and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years -- and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.
Author : Conrad Totman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119022336
This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and politics, culture, literature, media, foreign relations, imperialism, and industrialism. Updated to include an epilogue on Japan today and tomorrow. Now includes more on women in history and more on international relations. Bibliographical listings have been updated and enlarged. Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
Author : Tsurumi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136146183
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ronald M. McCarthy,Gene Sharp,Brad Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135067540
This comprehensive guide to research, sources, and theories about nonviolent action as a technique of struggle in social and political conficts discusses the methods and techniques used by groups in various encounters. Although violence and its causes have received a great deal of attention, nonviolent action has not received its due as an international phenomenon with a long history. An introduction that explains the theories and research used in the study provides a practical guide to this essential bibliography of English-language sources. The first part of the book covers case-study materials divided by region and subdivided by country. Within each country, materials are arranged chronologically and topically. The second major part examines the methods and theory of nonviolent action, principled nonviolence, and several closely related areas in social science, such as conflict analysis and social movements. The book is indexed by author and subject.
Author : Mark Elvin,Cuirong Liu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 052156381X
This collection of essays is the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China.
Author : Gail Bernstein,Andrew Gordon,Kate Wildman Nakai
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174027
The eleven chapters in this volume explore the process of carving out, in discourse and in practice, the boundaries delineating the state, the civil sphere, and the family in Japan from 1600 to 1950. One of the central themes in the volume is the demarcation of relations between the central political authorities and local communities. The early modern period in Japan is marked by a growing sense of a unified national society, with a long, common history, that existed in a coherent space. The growth of this national community inevitably raised questions about relationships between the imperial government and local groups and interests at the prefectural and village levels. Moves to demarcate divisions between central and local rule in the course of constructing a modern nation contributed to a public discourse that drew on longstanding assumptions about political legitimacy, authority, and responsibility as well as on Western political ideas.
Author : Gilbert Faccarello,Masashi Izumo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788977579
The writings of Thomas Robert Malthus continue to resonate today, particularly An Essay on the Principle of Population which was published more than two centuries ago. Malthus Across Nations creates a fascinating picture of the circulation of his economic and demographic ideas across different countries, highlighting the reception of his works in a variety of nations and cultures. This unique book offers not only a fascinating piece of comparative analysis in the history of economic thought but also places some of today’s most pressing debates into an accurate historical perspective, thereby improving our understanding of them.
Author : Brett L. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295989938
Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan and tracks changing attitudes toward nature through Japan's long history. Grain farmers once worshiped wolves at shrines and left food offerings near their dens, beseeching the elusive canine to protect their crops from the sharp hooves and voracious appetites of wild boars and deer. Talismans and charms adorned with images of wolves protected against fire, disease, and other calamities and brought fertility to agrarian communities and to couples hoping to have children. The Ainu people believed that they were born from the union of a wolflike creature and a goddess. In the eighteenth century, wolves were seen as rabid man-killers in many parts of Japan. Highly ritualized wolf hunts were instigated to cleanse the landscape of what many considered as demons. By the nineteenth century, however, the destruction of wolves had become decidedly unceremonious, as seen on the island of Hokkaido. Through poisoning, hired hunters, and a bounty system, one of the archipelago's largest carnivores was systematically erased. The story of wolf extinction exposes the underside of Japan's modernization. Certain wolf scientists still camp out in Japan to listen for any trace of the elusive canines. The quiet they experience reminds us of the profound silence that awaits all humanity when, as the Japanese priest Kenko taught almost seven centuries ago, we "look on fellow sentient creatures without feeling compassion."
Author : Ruth Oldenziel,Helmuth Trischler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781782389712
Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies—bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.
Author : Karen Thornber
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472118069
Delving into the complex, contradictory relationships between humans and the environment in Asian literatures
Author : Masao Miyoshi,Harry Harootunian
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0822328402
DIVExamines the institutions and productions of area studies and explores what it takes to "learn a place."/div
Author : James L. Huffman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824862015
No institution did more to create a modern citizenry than the newspaper press of the Meiji period (1868-1912). Here was a collection of highly diverse, private voices that provided increasing numbers of readers—many millions by the end of the period—with both its fresh picture of the world and a changing sense of its own place in that world. Creating a Public is the first comprehensive history of Japan's early newspaper press to appear in English in more than half a century. Drawing on decades of research in newspaper articles and editorials, journalists' memoirs and essays, it tells the story of Japan's newspaper press from its elitist beginnings just before the fall of the Tokugawa regime through its years as a shaper of a new political system in the 1880s to its emergence as a nationalistic, often sensational, medium early in the twentieth century.
Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004644861
This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.
