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ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT GEBU...

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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