Japan at Nature's Edge - The Environmental Context of a Global Power

Explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries.

Summary

Explores the relationship between Japan’s history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan’s role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Jared Miller, Ian Jared (EDT)/ Thomas Miller
• Assisted by: Ian Jared Miller (Editor), Julia Adeney Thomas (Editor), Brett L Walker (Editor), Brett L. Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9780824838768
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3876-8
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous