Economic history of energy and environment / S. Sugiyama, editor.
This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia. This...
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[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.