Toxic Archipelago - A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Explores the relationship between the causes of colossal toxic pollution and the manner in which pain caused by pollution insults porous human bodies Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Brett Walker, Brett L Walker, Brett L. Walker
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9780295991382
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99138-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous