A history of Japan
This book provides a history of Japan from ca.8,000 BC to 1990s. The author examines Japan from an ecological perspective, tracing the changing patterns of human - environment relations and the interactions with political, social, economic and cultural history. The book moves through the age of foragers, developments in agriculture, state building, the blossoming of classical arts and letters, socioeconomic growth and change, domestic and diplomatic politics, social issues of class, gender and ethnicity, cultural production and the environmental effects
Print Book, English, 2000
Blackwell Publishers, Malden, Mass., 2000