Japan
Subtitle: an environmental history
By: Conrad Totman
Series: Environmental history and global change series -- 6; Environmental history and global change series -- 6.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781784537432
Subjects: Environmental conditions; History
Description: "The lush green mountainous archipelago of today supports a population of over 127 million people and one of the most advanced economies in the world. How has this come about? At what environmental cost? Conrad Totman, one of the world's foremost scholars on Japan, here provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the country's environmental history, from its beginnings to the present day. What makes the Japanese story particularly instructive is that the country's boundaries are uncommonly clear and the nature, timing, and extent of external influences on its history are unusually identifiable. The Japanese experience, therefore, not only yields important insights into the processes of environmental history, it offers important lessons for the wider environmental history of the planet."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Japan the place -- -- 2.; title: Forager society to ca. 500 BCE -- -- 3.; title: Early agricultural society to 600 CE -- -- 4.; title: Early agricultural society, 600-1250 -- -- 5.; title: Later agricultural society, 1250-1650 -- -- 6.; title: Later agricultural society, 1650-1890 -- -- 7.; title: Imperial industrialism, 1890-1945 -- -- 8.; title: Entrepreneurial industrialism, 1945-2010 --; title: Conclusion : a recapitulation and final thoughts.