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Author Umesao, Tadao, 1920-2010.

Title An ecological view of history : Japanese civilization in the world context / Tadao Umesao ; edited by Harumi Befu ; translated by Beth Cary
Edition English edition
Published Rosanna, Vic. : Trans Pacific Press, 2003

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Description xviii, 208 pages ; 23 cm
Series Japanese society series
Japanese society series.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Figures -- Preface -- Introduction to the English language edition -- Acknowledgements -- Note on conventions -- -- 1 Between East and West -- 2 Culture of the East, Culture of the West -- 3 An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context -- 4 A New World Map of Civilization: A Search for a Comparative Theory of Civilization -- 5 Japan in Ecological History -- 6 Travels in Southeast Asia: An Ecological View of History, Continued -- 7 The Fate of the Arab People -- 8 Traces of India in Southeast Asia -- 9 The Countries of the 'Mediant' -- 10 From Thailand to Nepal: Scholarship, Arts, Religion -- 11 Methodological Notes on Comparative Religion -- 12 The Ocean and Japanese Civilization -- -- Comments -- Notes -- Index
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography
Notes Translated from the Japanese
Subject East and West -- History.
Social ecology -- Japan -- History.
SUBJECT Eurasia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045617 -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005029
Japan -- Civilization -- Foreign influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115616
Japan -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069361
Japan -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069426
Japan -- Relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106021
Author Befu, Harumi.
LC no. 2003285000
ISBN 187684308X
1876843896 (paperback)
9781876843083
9781876843892 (paperback)