Description |
xviii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books
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Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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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.
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Gray wolf. |
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Japan. |
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Extinct mammals -- Japan.
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Extinct mammals. |
ISBN |
0295984929 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780295984926 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780295988146 paperback |
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0295988142 paperback |
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