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Bringing Whales Ashore
Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern JapanWeyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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37,99 € |
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| Verlag: | University Of Washington Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 27.03.2018 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780295743301 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 272 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>Japan today defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition—but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (1603–1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized, shore-based whaling that first developed during these years bore little resemblance to modern Japanese whaling. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from whaling ledgers to recipe books and gravestones for fetal whales, she traces how the images of whales and by-products of commercial whaling were woven into the lives of people throughout Japan. Economically, Pacific Ocean resources were central in supporting the expanding Tokugawa state.</p>
<p>In this vivid and nuanced study of how the Japanese people brought whales ashore during the Tokugawa period, Arch makes important contributions to both environmental and Japanese history by connecting Japanese whaling to marine environmental history in the Pacific, including the devastating impact of American whaling in the nineteenth century.</p>
<p>In this vivid and nuanced study of how the Japanese people brought whales ashore during the Tokugawa period, Arch makes important contributions to both environmental and Japanese history by connecting Japanese whaling to marine environmental history in the Pacific, including the devastating impact of American whaling in the nineteenth century.</p>
<p>Jakobina K. Arch is assistant professor of history at Whitman College.</p>
<p>"<i>Bringing Whales Ashore</i> not only reveals the crucial role that whales played in Early Modern Japanese economics and culture, but also–for the first time–brilliantly uncovers the underwater connections binding the island nation to the Pacific world, even during the period of Japan’s deepest isolation. Full of fascinating details about whales and their pursuers, this book will serve as a model for anyone trying to make sense of the difficult relationship between humans and other large, charismatic mammals."—Ryan Tucker Jones, author of <i>Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867</i></p>
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