Economic history of energy and environment [electronic resource] / S. Sugiyama, editor.
2015
HC79.E5
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Title
Economic history of energy and environment [electronic resource] / S. Sugiyama, editor.
ISBN
9784431555070 electronic book
4431555072 electronic book
9784431555063
4431555072 electronic book
9784431555063
Published
Tokyo : Springer, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 134 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-4-431-55507-0 doi
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HC79.E5
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.9/27
Summary
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 volume includes four chapters on energy and the environment of Japan, China, and Britain, and four short book reviews on recent academic works published in Japanese and English. The four chapters cover the following topics: the relationship between deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in a district of Nagano Prefecture (central Japan) from the 1870s to the 1900s and the subsequent shift from firewood to coal; the importance of timber supplies for the development of industry as illustrated by a case study on the supply of timber for use as rail sleepers in the Japanese national railway network during the prewar period; a methodological survey of the history of ecology and the environment in China; and an analysis of the British Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act of 1821 as a measure that incorporated the interests of politicians, landlords, and industrialists.
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Sugiyama, S., editor.
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Monograph series of the socio-economic history society. Japan.
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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.
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.