| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cambridge oceanic histories |
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Cambridge oceanic histories.
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| Contents |
Lists of maps -- Lists of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Naming conventions -- 1. Bonins of contention : extraterritorial empire and borderland citizenship in the nineteenth-century Pacific -- 2. The race to Marcus Island : commodities and colonisation in the north Pacific, 1885-1902 -- 3. Bird and sovereignty conservation in the northwest Hawaiian Islands, 1898-1911 -- 4. Sand dunes and soldiers : from phosphate mining to national defence, 1902-1939 -- 5. Disaster : the abandonment of Japan's remote islands, 1902-1945 -- 6. Resurrecting the Torishima Albatross : wild birds and sovereignty in post-war Japan -- 7. The nature of the Senkaku Islands : biodiversity conservation in Okinawa, 1945-2013 -- Epilogue : islands and oceans -- Appendix: Japanese islands abandoned, 1868-2013 -- Select bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global environmental history, Paul Kreitman explores how the politics of conservation and sovereignty have entangled on islands from Hawai'i to the South China Sea, from the mid-nineteenth century till today"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nature conservation -- Political aspects -- Japan
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Birds -- Japan
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Island ecology -- Japan
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Islands -- Japan -- History
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Borderlands -- Japan -- History
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Sovereignty.
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Imperialism.
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sovereignty.
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Birds
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Borderlands
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Ecology
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Imperialism
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Island ecology
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Islands
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Nature conservation -- Political aspects
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Sovereignty
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Environmental conditions
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Japan -- Colonies -- Oceania
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108779241 |
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1108779247 |
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1108806503 |
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9781108806503 |
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