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Defensive Positions focuses on the role of regional domains in
early modern Japan's coastal defense, shedding new light on this
system's development. This examination, in turn, has significant
long-term political implications for the involvement of those
domains in Tokugawa state formation. Noell Wilson argues that
domainal autonomy in executing maritime defense slowly escalated
over the course of the Tokugawa period to the point where the
daimyo ultimately challenged Tokugawa authorities as the primary
military interface with the outside world. By first exploring
localized maritime defense at Nagasaki and then comparing its
organization with those of the Yokohama and Hakodate harbors during
the treaty port era, Wilson identifies new, core systemic sources
for the collapse of the shogunate's control of the monopoly on
violence. Her insightful analysis reveals how the previously
unexamined system of domain-managed coastal defense comprised a
critical third element-in addition to trade and diplomacy-of
Tokugawa external relations. Domainal control of coastal defense
exacerbated the shogunate's inability to respond to important
military and political challenges as Japan transitioned from an
early modern system of parcelized, local maritime defense to one of
centralized, national security as embraced by world powers in the
nineteenth century.
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting
place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples
who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American
whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth
century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that
have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship
between these two species has been central to the ocean's history.
Across Species and Cultures: New Histories of Pacific Whaling
offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and
temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific.
The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a
wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological
ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies,
and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously
hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the
contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the
industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked
second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth
century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling
histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also
reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous
peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and
South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives
and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of
commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of
mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to
nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean
where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth
and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors,
providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.
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