Japan is a country of rivers – more than 21,000 of them.
A new book by Roderick Wilson, a history professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, examines the relationships between the rivers and the people living along them, and the vital role that rivers played in Japan’s modern transformation. Wilson also considers the larger question of how people everywhere interact with and view their environments.
“Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600-1930” focuses on two of Japan’s most important rivers – the Yodo River and the Tone River – from the 17th century to the early 20th century and the interconnections between the rivers, nearby rural and urban communities, and governmental efforts to control them.
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