The conquest of ainu lands : ecology and culture in japanese expansion,1590-1800 /

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. Inspi...

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Main Author: Walker, Brett L (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
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