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.
发表于2024-12-27
A Concise History of Japan 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 日本 历史 日本史 环境史 eco Japan
To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The book begins by tracing the country's early history through archaeological remains, before proceeding to explore life in the imperial court, the rise of the samurai, civil conflict, encounters with Europe, and the advent of modernity and empire. Integrating the pageantry of a unique nation's history with today's environmental concerns, Walker's vibrant and accessible new narrative then follows Japan's ascension from the ashes of World War II into the thriving nation of today. It is a history for our times, posing important questions regarding how we should situate a nation's history in an age of environmental and climatological uncertainties.
俺得的通史长度。对军国主义和环境问题的评价比较严厉。因为作者的学科背景?对文化的描写不多(但有有趣的豆知识。
评分It is a history written in the Anthropocene. 1.Walker brings an environmental historical perspective to reconstruct Japanese past; 2 It ends unusually with the global threat of climate change in Japan. 3. I particularly like his discussions on energy regimes, war impact on environment,and relations of manga/anime and environment in post-war Japan.
评分It is a history written in the Anthropocene. 1.Walker brings an environmental historical perspective to reconstruct Japanese past; 2 It ends unusually with the global threat of climate change in Japan. 3. I particularly like his discussions on energy regimes, war impact on environment,and relations of manga/anime and environment in post-war Japan.
评分俺得的通史长度。对军国主义和环境问题的评价比较严厉。因为作者的学科背景?对文化的描写不多(但有有趣的豆知识。
评分It is a history written in the Anthropocene. 1.Walker brings an environmental historical perspective to reconstruct Japanese past; 2 It ends unusually with the global threat of climate change in Japan. 3. I particularly like his discussions on energy regimes, war impact on environment,and relations of manga/anime and environment in post-war Japan.
A Concise History of Japan 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书