Toxic archipelago : a history of industrial disease in Japan / Brett L. Walker ; foreword by Willima Cronon.

  • Walker, Brett L., 1967-
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[2010], ©2010
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Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2010], ©2010.

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xviii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index.

Contents

Introduction: knowing nature -- The agency of insects -- The agency of chemicals -- Copper mining and ecological collapse -- Engineering pain in the Jinzu River basin -- Hell at the Hojo Colliery.

Awards note

American Society for Environmental History George Perkins Marsh Prize, 2011.

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    History of Medicine
    MJ.26
    		Open shelves

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  • 9780295989549
  • 0295989548
  • 9780295991382
  • 0295991380