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- catalog abstract ""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, Brett L. Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. By framing his study between the cultural and ecological worlds of the Ainu before and after two centuries of sustained contact with the Japanese, the author demonstrates with great clarity just how far the Ainu were incorporated into the Japanese political economy and just how much their ceremonial and material life - not to mention disease ecology, medical culture, and their physical environment - had been infiltrated by Japanese cultural artifacts, practices, and epidemiology by the early nineteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12023491.
- catalog coverage "Hokkaido (Japan) History.".
- catalog coverage "Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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, Brett L. Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground.".
- catalog description "By framing his study between the cultural and ecological worlds of the Ainu before and after two centuries of sustained contact with the Japanese, the author demonstrates with great clarity just how far the Ainu were incorporated into the Japanese political economy and just how much their ceremonial and material life - not to mention disease ecology, medical culture, and their physical environment - had been infiltrated by Japanese cultural artifacts, practices, and epidemiology by the early nineteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-297) and index.".
- catalog description "The consolidation of the early-modern Japanese state in the north -- Shakushain's war -- The ecology of Ainu autonomy and dependence -- Symbolism and environment in trade -- The Sakhalin trade: diplomatic and ecological balance -- The Kuril trade: Russian and the question of boundaries -- Epidemic disease, medicine, and the shifting ecology of Ezo -- The role of ceremony in conquest.".
- catalog extent "xii, 332 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520227360 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Hokkaido (Japan) History.".
- catalog spatial "Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.".
- catalog spatial "Japan Hokkaido.".
- catalog subject "952/.025 21".
- catalog subject "Ainu History.".
- catalog subject "DS832 .W35 2001".
- catalog subject "Human ecology Japan Hokkaido.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The consolidation of the early-modern Japanese state in the north -- Shakushain's war -- The ecology of Ainu autonomy and dependence -- Symbolism and environment in trade -- The Sakhalin trade: diplomatic and ecological balance -- The Kuril trade: Russian and the question of boundaries -- Epidemic disease, medicine, and the shifting ecology of Ezo -- The role of ceremony in conquest.".
- catalog title "The conquest of Ainu lands : ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 / Brett L. Walker.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".