Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

by Brett L. Walker

Book Overview

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago.

During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295991380
• ISBN13: 9780295991382
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"