Description
Economic History of Energy and Environment, 2015
Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan Series
Language: EnglishSubject for Economic History of Energy and Environment:
Publication date: 10-2016
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 06-2015
134 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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Introduction:Sugiyama.- Chapter 1 From firewood to coal: deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan (Sugiyama and Yamada).- Chapter 2 National railways and the procurement of railway sleepers in prewar Japan (Yamaguchi).- Chapter 3 A history of the ecology and environmental conditions in China (Ueda).- Chapter 4 The problem of air pollution in the British Industrial Revolution: the enactment of the Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act of 1821.
Makes recent academic works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider audience
Contributes knowledge on the history of energy and environment in Japan and Asia
Introduces recent academic works on the history of energy published in Japanese
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras