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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458186103321

Autore

Walker Brett L. <1967->

Titolo

The lost wolves of Japan [[electronic resource] /] / Brett L. Walker ; foreword by William Cronon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2005

ISBN

0-295-98993-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Altri autori (Persone)

CrononWilliam

Disciplina

599.773/0952

Soggetti

Gray wolf - Japan

Extinct mammals - Japan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents ""; ""Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy by William Cronon ""; ""Preface ""; ""A Note to the Reader ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1. Science and the Creation of the Japanese Wolf ""; ""2. Culture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred Wolves ""; ""3. The Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern Japan ""; ""4. Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido Wolf ""; ""5. Wolf Bounties and the Ecologies of Progress ""; ""6. Wolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of Ecology ""; ""Epilogue ""

""Appendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881 """"Notes ""; ""Works Cited ""; ""Index ""