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Author Walker, Brett L., 1967-

Title The lost wolves of Japan / Brett L. Walker ; foreword by William Cronon.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  QL737.C22 W33 2005    Available  ---
Description xviii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Weyerhaeuser environmental books
Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-303) and index.
Contents Foreword : a strange violent intimacy / by William Cronon -- Science and the creation of the Japanese wolf -- Culture and the creation of Japan's sacred wolves -- The conflicts between wolf hunters and rabid man-killers in early modern Japan -- Meiji modernization, scientific agriculture, and destroying the Hokkaido wolf -- Wolf bounties and the ecology of progress -- Wolf extinction theories and the birth of Japan's discipline of ecology -- Appendix : wolves and bears killed and bounties paid by administrative region, 1877-1881.
Subject Gray wolf -- Japan.
Gray wolf.
Japan.
Extinct mammals -- Japan.
Extinct mammals.
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