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Bad Water : Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stolz, Robert.
- Series:
- Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental protection--Japan.
- Environmental protection--Political aspects--Japan.
- Pollution--Japan.
- Pollution--Political aspects--Japan.
- Environmental protection.
- Pollution.
- Local Subjects:
- Environmental protection--Japan.
- Environmental protection--Political aspects--Japan.
- Pollution--Japan.
- Pollution--Political aspects--Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate nature into politics was revealed by a series of large-scale industrial disasters in the 1890s. The Ashio Copper Mine unleashed massive amounts of copper, arsenic, mercury, and other pollutants into surrounding watersheds. Robert Stolz argues that by forcefully demonstrating the mutual penetration of humans and nature, industrial pollution biology
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One. A Decade of Leaks; Two. Pollution and Peasants at the Limits of Liberalism; Three. Nature over Nation - Tanaka Shōzō's Environmental Turn; Four. Natural Democracy; Five. The Original Green Company Snow Brand Dairy; Conclusion. Bad Water, a Theoretical Consideration; Appendix. Tanaka and Kōtoku's Appeal to the Meiji Emperor; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822376507
- 0822376504
- OCLC:
- 875096582
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