The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan
This is a superb book on an important subject: the pulling back of Japan beginning in the late 17th century from the utter destruction of her forests—a course on which the country seemed bent in 1600—and from the ecological, economic, and social catastrophe that would have followed. The...
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This is a superb book on an important subject: the pulling back of Japan beginning in the late 17th century from the utter destruction of her forests—a course on which the country seemed bent in 1600—and from the ecological, economic, and social catastrophe that would have followed. The immense importance of the subject for Japanese history is obvious.—Thomas R. Smith, University of California, Berkeley
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780520063129 (0520063120)
Publish date: January 24th 1989
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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