| Description |
xii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index. |
| Contents |
The consolidation of the early-modern Japanese state in the north -- Shakushain's war -- The ecology of Ainu autonomy and dependence -- Symbolism and environment in trade -- The Sakhalin trade: diplomatic and ecological balance -- The Kuril trade: Russian and the question of boundaries -- Epidemic disease, medicine, and the shifting ecology of Ezo -- The role of ceremony in conquest. |
| Summary |
"This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu - the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. Inspired by "New Western" historians of the United States, Brett L. Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. |
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By framing his study between the cultural and ecological worlds of the Ainu before and after two centuries of sustained contact with the Japanese, the author demonstrates with great clarity just how far the Ainu were incorporated into the Japanese political economy and just how much their ceremonial and material life - not to mention disease ecology, medical culture, and their physical environment - had been infiltrated by Japanese cultural artifacts, practices, and epidemiology by the early nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Ainu -- History.
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Ainu. |
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History. |
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Hokkaido (Japan) -- History.
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Human ecology -- Japan -- Hokkaido.
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Human ecology. |
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Japan -- Hokkaido. |
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Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
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| ISBN |
0520227360 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520227361 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520248341 paperback |
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9780520248342 paperback |
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