A Concise History of Japan

Walker, Brett L.

ISBN 10: 052117872X / ISBN 13: 9780521178723

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2015

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A comprehensive and engaging new history, charting Japan's development from its origins through to the present day.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Brett L. Walker is Regents Professor and Michael P. Malone Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 for his work on global environmental history. He studies environmental history, the history of human health, and the history of science, particularly as they relate to Japan. He investigates how nature has imposed its way onto the human past, as well as how humans have sliced, burned, extracted and engineered their needs and desires onto Earth and its living organisms. He is the author of The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800, The Lost Wolves of Japan, and Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Recently, he co-edited Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power.

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Titel: A Concise History of Japan
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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