Seeds of Control
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Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century Korea
Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905?1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula's extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of ?forest love,? the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea's forest resources into supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan's imperial sphere. These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after 1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total war.
In this wide-ranging study David Fedman explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea?a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, Seeds of Control examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea's ?greenification.? Drawing from sources in Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green imperialism in Asia.
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David Fedman is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.
Content
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Under Japan's Green Thumb, by Paul S. Sutter
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Names and Measures
- Maps of the Japanese Empire and Korea
- Introduction
- Part I: Roots
- One. Imperializing Forestry
- Two. Korea, Green and Red
- Part II: Reforms
- Three. Righting the Woodlands
- Four. Engineering Growth
- Five. The Timber Undertaking
- Six. Civic Forestry
- Part III: Campaigns
- Seven. Forest-Love Thought
- Eight. A Stiff Wind Blows
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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