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"An extremely important book which contains a number of uniformly excellent papers on a variety of topics relating, to various degrees, to the nexus of demographic-economic interrelationships for presently developing countries."-William J. Serow, Southern Economic Journal "An important landmark in the growing field of economic demography."-Dudley Kirk, Journal of Developing Areas
Developing countries -- Population -- Congresses. --- Developing countries -- Population. --- Population -- Economic aspects -- Congresses. --- Population -- Economic aspects. --- Population. --- economics, economy, developing countries, fertility, population, birth rate, child mortality, migrant workers, migration, poverty, preindustrial england, baby boom, inequality, wealth, nonfiction, household behavior, immigration, transient, mobility, congress, policy, foreign aid, third world, underdeveloped country, expansion, growth, family planning.
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Every foreign traveler in Japan is delighted by the verdant forest-shrouded mountains that thrust skyward from one end of the island chain to the other. The Japanese themselves are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they sometimes refer to as "the green archipelago." Yet, based on its fragile geography and centuries of extremely dense human occupation, Japan today should be an impoverished, slum-ridden, peasant society subsisting on a barren, eroded moonscape characterized by bald mountains and debris-strewn lowlands.In fact, as Conrad Totman argues in this pathbreaking work based on prodigious research, this lush verdue is not a monument to nature's benevolence and Japanese aesthetic sensibilities, but the hard-earned result of generations of human toil that have converted the archipelago into one great forest preserve. Indeed, the author shows that until the late 1600s Japan was well on her way to ecological disaster due to exploitative forestry. During the Tokugawa period, however, an extraordinary change took place resulting in a system of "regenerative forestry" that averted the devastation of Japan's forests. The Green Archipelago is the only major Western-language work on this subject and a landmark not only in Japanese history, but in the history of the environment.
Forest policy - Japan. --- Forest policy -- Japan -- History. --- Forests and forestry - Japan. --- Forests and forestry -- Japan -- History. --- Japan -- History -- To 1868. --- Forestry --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Forests and forestry --- Forest policy --- Japan --- History --- E-books --- afforestation. --- archipelago. --- central japan. --- conservation. --- ecology. --- ecosystem. --- edo period. --- environment. --- exploitation forestry. --- forest regulation. --- forest terrain. --- forestry. --- humans and nature. --- industrialism. --- industrialized society. --- japan. --- kinai basin. --- land use patterns. --- land use. --- medieval japan. --- national forests. --- natural world. --- nature preserve. --- nature. --- plantation forestry. --- preindustrial. --- private land. --- regenerative forestry. --- silviculture. --- timber depletion. --- timber. --- tokugawa. --- wilderness.
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In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage a reconsideration of the paradigms of women's history, hitherto rooted in the Western experience.
Women --- Feminism --- Employment --- History. --- #SBIB:316.346H20 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- #SBIB:95G --- J4176.80 --- J4353 --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History --- Employment&delete& --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: algemeen --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Azië --- Geschiedenis van Azië (inclusief Arabische wereld, Nabije Oosten) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- history --- Japan: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- women --- Femmes --- Féminisme --- Histoire --- Travail --- Japan --- Féminisme --- Japon --- agriculture. --- artisan. --- bakufu. --- class. --- division of labor. --- domesticity. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- gender hierarchy. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gendered labor. --- handicrafts. --- household chores. --- household labor. --- japan. --- japanese women. --- meiji restoration. --- merchants. --- misogyny. --- onnagata. --- onnarashisa. --- otokorashisa. --- patriarchy. --- peasants. --- post war. --- preindustrial society. --- samurai. --- sexuality. --- shingaku. --- status. --- tokugawa. --- wealth. --- womanhood. --- women and labor. --- women in history. --- women in the workforce. --- womens studies. --- womens work. --- working women.
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