Bad Water - Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950

Robert Stolz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. A Decade of Leaks 19

2. Pollution and Peasants at the Limits of Liberalism 51

3. Nature over Nation: Tanaka Shozo's Environmental Turn 85

4. Natural Democracy 117

5. The Original Green Company: Snow Brand Dairy 159

Conclusion. Bad Water, a Theoretical Consideration 191

Appendix. Tanaka and Kotoku's Appeal to the Meiji Emperor 207

Notes 211

Bibliography 243

Index

About the author

Robert Stolz

Summary

Presents a theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Stolz
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2014
• EAN: 9780822356905
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5690-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous