Bringing Whales Ashore

Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan

Jakobina K. Arch (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2018
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74329-5 (ISBN)

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Japan today defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition—but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (1603–1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized, shore-based whaling that first developed during these years bore little resemblance to modern Japanese whaling. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from whaling ledgers to recipe books and gravestones for fetal whales, she traces how the images of whales and by-products of commercial whaling were woven into the lives of people throughout Japan. Economically, Pacific Ocean resources were central in supporting the expanding Tokugawa state.

In this vivid and nuanced study of how the Japanese people brought whales ashore during the Tokugawa period, Arch makes important contributions to both environmental and Japanese history by connecting Japanese whaling to marine environmental history in the Pacific, including the devastating impact of American whaling in the nineteenth century.

Jakobina K. Arch is assistant professor of history at Whitman College.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.03.2018
Reihe/Serie	Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Paul S. Sutter
Vorwort	Paul S. Sutter
Zusatzinfo	16 b&w illus., 3 maps
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
ISBN-10	0-295-74329-8 / 0295743298
ISBN-13	978-0-295-74329-5 / 9780295743295
Zustand	Neuware