Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan - Brossura

Walker, Brett L.

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ISBN 10: 0295991380 ISBN 13: 9780295991382

Casa editrice: Univ of Washington Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago.

During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies.

Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations; poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents; and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos.

This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years -- and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Brett L. Walker is Regents' Professor and department chair of history and philosophy at Montana State University, Bozeman. He is author of The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 and The Lost Wolves of Japan.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Washington Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0295991380
• ISBN 13: 9780295991382
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 284