Toxic archipelago : a history of industrial disease in Japan / Brett L. Walker ; foreword by Willima Cronon.
- Walker, Brett L., 1967-
- Date:
- [2010], ©2010
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2010], ©2010.
Physical description
xviii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Awards note
American Society for Environmental History George Perkins Marsh Prize, 2011.
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineMJ.26Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780295989549
- 0295989548
- 9780295991382
- 0295991380