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The Conquest of Ainu Lands Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800 Hardcover - 2001
by Brett L. Walker
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In the late eighteenth century, when geographer Furukawa Koshoken crossed over from Hirosaki domain and arrived in the Matsumae castle town for the first time, he was struck by how much certain aspects of Fukuyama resembled Kyoto.
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- Title The Conquest of Ainu Lands Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800
- Author Brett L. Walker
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition, F
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date June 4, 2001
- ISBN 9780520227361
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University of California Press, 2001-06-04. Hardcover. very sporadic pencil markings/Minimal wear to cover and jacket. 9x6x1.
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The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590- 1800
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U.S.A.: University of California Pre, 2001. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu the nativ e people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeen th and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. Inspi red by "new Western" historians of the United States, Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. By framing his study between the cultural and ecological worlds of the Ainu b efore and after two centuries of sustained contact with the Japanese, the a uthor demonstrates with great clarity just how far the Ainu were incorporat ed into the Japanese political economy and just how much their ceremonial a nd material life not to mention…
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