Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective / / Conrad Totman.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 5 Japan ; 11
• VerfasserIn: Totman, Conrad,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 5 Japan ; 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Quoting from a reader's report "this is an original and compelling synthesis of the environmental history of Korea and Japan." Taking the history of Japan and Korea and their environmental interactions from late Pleistocene down to about 1870 AD, the author makes a convincing case for viewing the two countries together, as a history, particularly when looking at their pre-industrial experiences. Drawing from a rare combination of knowledge of both countries, Conrad Totman reveals the extent of shared timing, substance, and dynamics in the political, social, and economic development of the two countries, and in their relationship to the ecosystem. With extensive bibliography, chronology, glossary, maps and graphs.A real must.

Table of Contents

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter One: Paleogeography and Pre-Agricultural Society (to 1000 BCE); Chapter Two: The Rise of Early Agrarian Regimes (1000 BCE-700 CE); Chapter Three: The Early Agricultural Order (700-1350 CE); Chapter Four: The Later Agricultural Order (1350-1870 CE); Epilogue; Glossary; List of Plant and Animal Names; Bibliographical Essay; Bibliography; Index; Plates