![]() ![]() ![]() Using new and little-known material from archives as well as Ainu oral traditions and archaeology, Walker poses an exciting new set of questions and issues that have yet to be approached in so innovative and thorough a fashion. He has long been interested in Okinawan and. Rather than presenting a mere juxtaposition of oppression and resistance, he offers a subtle analysis of how material and ecological changes induced by trade with Japan set in motion a reorientation of the whole northern culture and landscape. He is currently a professor of East Asian history at Montana State University. 'Brett Walkers A Concise History of Japan is a new national survey geared to the global Anthropocene. Walker takes a fresh and original approach. From humanitys deep history in the archipelago to the massive crisis of March 2011, Walkers history recasts the central themes of the Japanese past. 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. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. Inspired by "new Western" historians of the United States, Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years - and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.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. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies. FebruSeptem(59 years old) New Tazewell, Tennessee Bret Walker Obituary It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Bret Walker of New Tazewell, Tennessee, who passed away on September 8, 2021, at the age of 59, leaving to mourn family and friends. He studies environmental history, the history of human health, and the history of science, particularly as they relate to Japan. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 for his work on global environmental history. Malone Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman. ![]() Walker is Regents Professor of History at Montana State University. Walker is Regents Professor and Michael P. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago.ĭuring the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Brett Walker, a historian with an eye for science and an ear for language, knows that he and his near-death experience are a synecdoche for the broader issues of disease, memory, selfhood, and history among us all.'David Quammen, author of Spillover About the Author Brett L. As singer-songwriter, musician, and publisher Walker's music was heard on over 300 network television shows, including One Life to Live, All My Children, The Young and the Restless, One Tree Hill, Felicity, CSI: Miami, Everwood, Malcolm in the Middle, Baywatch, Sex and the City and National Lampoon's Barely Legal. Walker was involved in music publishing on TV and film. Our lives depend on these relationships - and are imperiled by them as well. Carl Brett Walker was an American songwriter, musician, and record producer. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan. He completed his residency at McLaren Oakland. A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Walker received his medical degree from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. ![]()
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