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Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in environmental perspective / by Conrad Totman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Totman, Conrad D.
- Series:
- Handbuch der Orientalistik. Japan ; Funfte Abteilung, v. 11.
- Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section five, Japan, 0921-5239 ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Korea--History.
- Human ecology.
- Human ecology--Japan--History.
- Agriculture--Korea--History.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Japan--History.
- Korea--Environmental conditions.
- Korea.
- Japan--Environmental conditions.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Quoting from a reader's report "this is an original and compelling synthesis of the environmental history of Korea and Japan." Taking the history of Japan and Korea and their environmental interactions from late Pleistocene down to about 1870 AD, the author makes a convincing case for viewing the two countries together, as a history, particularly when looking at their pre-industrial experiences. Drawing from a rare combination of knowledge of both countries, Conrad Totman reveals the extent of shared timing, substance, and dynamics in the political, social, and economic development of the two countries, and in their relationship to the ecosystem. With extensive bibliography, chronology, glossary, maps and graphs.A real must.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter One: Paleogeography and Pre-Agricultural Society (to 1000 BCE); Chapter Two: The Rise of Early Agrarian Regimes (1000 BCE-700 CE); Chapter Three: The Early Agricultural Order (700-1350 CE); Chapter Four: The Later Agricultural Order (1350-1870 CE); Epilogue; Glossary; List of Plant and Animal Names; Bibliographical Essay; Bibliography; Index; Plates
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-46524-7
- 9786610465248
- 1-4237-1240-4
- 90-474-0284-7
- OCLC:
- 228119066
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047402848 DOI
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