| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Weyerhaeuser environmental books
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Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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Appendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881 Notes ; Works Cited ; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gray wolf -- Japan.
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Gray wolf. |
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Japan. |
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Extinct mammals -- Japan.
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Extinct mammals. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cronon, William.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walker, Brett L., 1967- Lost wolves of Japan. Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2004031040 |
| ISBN |
9780295989938 (electronic book) |
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0295989939 (electronic book) |
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0295984929 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780295984926 |
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0295988142 |
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9780295988146 |
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