The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800

by Brett L. Walker

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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, Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. By...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520248341

ISBN13:9780520248342

Release Date:February 2006

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

17th Century Asia Cultural Ethnic Studies History Japan Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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