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1. The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansion
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Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Preface xi
- Writing Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Promises and Perils of Environmental History 1
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Part I: Oceans and Empires
- 1. The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansion 21
- From Meat to Machine Oil: The Nineteenth-Century Development of Whaling in Wakayama 39
- Fisheries Build Up the Nation: Maritime Environmental Encounters Between Japan and China 56
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Part II: Changing Landscapes
- Talking Sulfur Dioxide: Air Pollution and the Politics of Science in Late Meiji Japan 73
- Constructing Nature 90
- Toroku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares 115
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Part III: Between Bodies
- Fecal Matters: Prolegomenon to a History of Shit in Japan 137
- Weathering Fuji: Marriage, Meteorology, and the Meiji Bodyscape 152
- Animal Histories: Stranger in a Tokyo Canal 175
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Part IV: Vistas and Vantage Points
- Inventorying Nature: Tokugawa Yoshimune and the Sponsorship of Honzōgaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan 189
- Japanese Literature and Environmental Crises 207
- Japanese Environmental Policy: Lessons from Experience and Remaining Problems 222
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Part V: The Triple Disaster of 3/11
- An Envirotechnical Disaster: Negotiating Nature, Technology, and Politics at Fukushima 255
- Postcrisis Japanese Nuclear Policy: From Topdown Directives to Bottom-Up Activism 280
- Using Japan to Think Globally: The Natural Subject of History and Its Hopes 293
- List of Contributors 311
- Index 315
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Preface xi
- Writing Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Promises and Perils of Environmental History 1
-
Part I: Oceans and Empires
- 1. The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansion 21
- From Meat to Machine Oil: The Nineteenth-Century Development of Whaling in Wakayama 39
- Fisheries Build Up the Nation: Maritime Environmental Encounters Between Japan and China 56
-
Part II: Changing Landscapes
- Talking Sulfur Dioxide: Air Pollution and the Politics of Science in Late Meiji Japan 73
- Constructing Nature 90
- Toroku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares 115
-
Part III: Between Bodies
- Fecal Matters: Prolegomenon to a History of Shit in Japan 137
- Weathering Fuji: Marriage, Meteorology, and the Meiji Bodyscape 152
- Animal Histories: Stranger in a Tokyo Canal 175
-
Part IV: Vistas and Vantage Points
- Inventorying Nature: Tokugawa Yoshimune and the Sponsorship of Honzōgaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan 189
- Japanese Literature and Environmental Crises 207
- Japanese Environmental Policy: Lessons from Experience and Remaining Problems 222
-
Part V: The Triple Disaster of 3/11
- An Envirotechnical Disaster: Negotiating Nature, Technology, and Politics at Fukushima 255
- Postcrisis Japanese Nuclear Policy: From Topdown Directives to Bottom-Up Activism 280
- Using Japan to Think Globally: The Natural Subject of History and Its Hopes 293
- List of Contributors 311
- Index 315