Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930: 68 - Rilegato

Libro 55 di 72: Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 1

Roderick I. Wilson

 
9789004433014: Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930: 68
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ISBN 10: 9004433015 ISBN 13: 9789004433014
Casa editrice: BRILL, 2021

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In Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930, Roderick I. Wilson describes how the rivers of Japan are both hydrologically and historically dynamic. Today, these waterways are slowed, channeled, diverted, and dammed by a myriad of levees, multiton concrete tetrapods, and massive multipurpose dams. In part, this intensive engineering arises from the waterways falling great elevations over short distances, flowing over unstable rock and soil, and receiving large quantities of precipitation during monsoons and typhoons. But this modern river regime is also the product of a history that narrowed both these waterways and people’s diverse interactions with them in the name of flood control. Neither a story of technological progress nor environmental decline, this history introduces the concept of environmental relations as a category of historical analysis both to explore these fluvial interactions and reveal underappreciated dimensions of Japanese history.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Roderick I. Wilson, Ph.D., Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he teaches and writes about topics in Japanese and environmental history.

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Editore
BRILL
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
9004433015
ISBN 13 
9789004433014
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
220
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