Brett L Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 247827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brett L Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brett L |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1183-3449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Yukikaze's War
Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination, illustrating the daily realities of war for Yukikaze and her crew. By shifting our perspective of the Pacific War away from grand Imperial strategies, and toward the intricacies of fighting on the …
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Japan at Nature's Edge
This book explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth's environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan's March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of J…
Japan at Nature's Edge
Japan at Nature's Edge
Animals and the Intimacy of History
This article surveys recent historical writings on animals. Its principal concerns are the manner in which historians grant agency to animals and how that agency functions in historical narration. The article examines the histories of animals in Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and North America in order to tease out the similarities and differences of human experiences with other animals. The foundational premise of the article is that humans are …
Mamiya Rinzō and the Japanese Exploration of Sakhalin Island
In this article Walker argues that Japanese imperial processes began much earlier than other scholars often assume; the Tokugawa government was well aware of various geo-political threats that certain countries posed to Japan's national defense in the early 19th century. Specifically, both the Qing Empire and Russia were poised to claim sovereignty over Sakhalin, an island in the North Pacific, through their competing attempts to map the territor…
Defining Engagement
Reviewed by: Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868 Brett L. Walker Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868 BY Robert I. Hellyer. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. Pp. xvi + 281. $39.95. Nearly twenty years after the publication of Ronald P. Toby's State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, the notion that Japan was a "closed country" (sakoku) duri…
Toxic Archipelago
Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved …
Climate-change impacts on sagebrush habitat and West Nile virus transmission risk and conservation implications for greater sage-grouse
Ecological Modernization and Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Ecological Modernization and Japan Brett L. Walker (bio) Ecological Modernization and Japan. Edited by Brendan F. D. Barrett. Routledge, London, 2005. xxi, 214 pages. £65.00. The eight chapters and conclusion in Ecological Modernization and Japan assess recent environmental, political, and industrial policies to determine whether Japan is an ecologically modern nation. The book accomplishes this task effectively, even though the ulti…
Sanemori's Revenge
Normally we do not think of living organisms as machines or as relays in complex, tightly coupled technological systems. Nonetheless, in recent years this is precisely the manner in which many environmental historians have come to approach the study of certain organisms and their natural or anthropogenic environments. Over the millennia and across the globe, humans have so manipulated certain organisms that they have come to exist solely as parts…
Toshié
Book Review| January 01 2006 Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan. Simon Partner. Brett L. Walker Brett L. Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 132–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.132 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brett L. Walker; Toshié: A Story of …
Mamiya Rinzo and the Japanese Exploration of Sakhalin Island
Maps can be powerful tools of nation building and empire, and therefore powerful historical sources. Whether they delineate tidal patterns, measure altitude, chart seafloors, identify ethnic communities, or bind nations, maps provide a potent lens through which people view the world and, in turn, spatially contextualize their experiences. Because of their power as historical sources, maps also serve as useful pedagogical devices when teaching abo…
Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf
Commercial Growth and Environmental Change in Early Modern Japan
The only aspect of this bizarre famine that historians really know for sure is that the Hachinohe chroniclers of the day remembered it as the "wild boar famine" (inoshishi kegachi) of 1749. From what can be pieced together from the few available sources, thousands of peasants from Hachinohe died when an intensification of slash-and-burn farming, fueled by economic growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), combined with terrestrial and climat…
Harukor
The early modern Japanese state and Ainu vaccinations
THE EARLY MODERN JAPANESE STATE AND AINU VACCINATIONS: REDEFINING THE BODY POLITIC 1799–1868 Get access Brett L. Walker Brett L. Walker Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 163, Issue 1, May 1999, Pages 121–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/163.1.121 Published: 01 May 1999
Edo and Paris
Ikki
Japan's Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements
Capitalism From Within
The future of public health
Significant progress has been made in developing the biological, social, and behavioral science base for public health services. But this knowledge will have limited value unless it is transformed into programs and services for the people who need them. The systems and mechanics for this transmutation may not have reached their full potential. Assuring that they do so offers, in the 1990s, a challenge and an opportunity for the public health comm…
Environmental health and African Americans
As environmental health has taken on immensely increased significance in the prevention of disease, dysfunction, and premature death, its boundaries have been anything but stable. This instability, along with a multitude of demographic, social, and economic currents, have brought into stark relief the increasing demand for scientists who have the skills and knowledge to perform environmental risk assessment and implement effective risk management…
Public health and the new national effort
Public health and the new national effort. B Walker, JrCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.79.4.419 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Animals and the Intimacy of History
This article surveys recent historical writings on animals. Its principal concerns are the manner in which historians grant agency to animals and how that agency functions in historical narration. The article examines the histories of animals in Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and North America in order to tease out the similarities and differences of human experiences with other animals. The foundational premise of the article is that humans are …
Toxic Archipelago
Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved …
Capitalism From Within
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Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf
The future of public health
Significant progress has been made in developing the biological, social, and behavioral science base for public health services. But this knowledge will have limited value unless it is transformed into programs and services for the people who need them. The systems and mechanics for this transmutation may not have reached their full potential. Assuring that they do so offers, in the 1990s, a challenge and an opportunity for the public health comm…
Sanemori's Revenge
Normally we do not think of living organisms as machines or as relays in complex, tightly coupled technological systems. Nonetheless, in recent years this is precisely the manner in which many environmental historians have come to approach the study of certain organisms and their natural or anthropogenic environments. Over the millennia and across the globe, humans have so manipulated certain organisms that they have come to exist solely as parts…
Commercial Growth and Environmental Change in Early Modern Japan
The only aspect of this bizarre famine that historians really know for sure is that the Hachinohe chroniclers of the day remembered it as the "wild boar famine" (inoshishi kegachi) of 1749. From what can be pieced together from the few available sources, thousands of peasants from Hachinohe died when an intensification of slash-and-burn farming, fueled by economic growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), combined with terrestrial and climat…
Environmental quality and the local health agency--a re-examination
Environmental quality and the local health agency--a re-examination. B Walker, JrCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.4.352 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Public health and the new national effort
Public health and the new national effort. B Walker, JrCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.79.4.419 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Environmental health and African Americans
As environmental health has taken on immensely increased significance in the prevention of disease, dysfunction, and premature death, its boundaries have been anything but stable. This instability, along with a multitude of demographic, social, and economic currents, have brought into stark relief the increasing demand for scientists who have the skills and knowledge to perform environmental risk assessment and implement effective risk management…
The future of public health
Significant progress has been made in developing the biological, social, and behavioral science base for public health services. But this knowledge will have limited value unless it is transformed into programs and services for the people who need them. The systems and mechanics for this transmutation may not have reached their full potential. Assuring that they do so offers, in the 1990s, a challenge and an opportunity for the public health comm…
Capitalism From Within
Ikki
Japan's Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements
Edo and Paris
The early modern Japanese state and Ainu vaccinations
THE EARLY MODERN JAPANESE STATE AND AINU VACCINATIONS: REDEFINING THE BODY POLITIC 1799–1868 Get access Brett L. Walker Brett L. Walker Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 163, Issue 1, May 1999, Pages 121–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/163.1.121 Published: 01 May 1999
Harukor
Commercial Growth and Environmental Change in Early Modern Japan
The only aspect of this bizarre famine that historians really know for sure is that the Hachinohe chroniclers of the day remembered it as the "wild boar famine" (inoshishi kegachi) of 1749. From what can be pieced together from the few available sources, thousands of peasants from Hachinohe died when an intensification of slash-and-burn farming, fueled by economic growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), combined with terrestrial and climat…
Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf
Toshié
Book Review| January 01 2006 Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan. Simon Partner. Brett L. Walker Brett L. Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 132–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.132 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brett L. Walker; Toshié: A Story of …
Mamiya Rinzo and the Japanese Exploration of Sakhalin Island
Maps can be powerful tools of nation building and empire, and therefore powerful historical sources. Whether they delineate tidal patterns, measure altitude, chart seafloors, identify ethnic communities, or bind nations, maps provide a potent lens through which people view the world and, in turn, spatially contextualize their experiences. Because of their power as historical sources, maps also serve as useful pedagogical devices when teaching abo…
Ecological Modernization and Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Ecological Modernization and Japan Brett L. Walker (bio) Ecological Modernization and Japan. Edited by Brendan F. D. Barrett. Routledge, London, 2005. xxi, 214 pages. £65.00. The eight chapters and conclusion in Ecological Modernization and Japan assess recent environmental, political, and industrial policies to determine whether Japan is an ecologically modern nation. The book accomplishes this task effectively, even though the ulti…
Sanemori's Revenge
Normally we do not think of living organisms as machines or as relays in complex, tightly coupled technological systems. Nonetheless, in recent years this is precisely the manner in which many environmental historians have come to approach the study of certain organisms and their natural or anthropogenic environments. Over the millennia and across the globe, humans have so manipulated certain organisms that they have come to exist solely as parts…
Climate-change impacts on sagebrush habitat and West Nile virus transmission risk and conservation implications for greater sage-grouse
Toxic Archipelago
Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved …
Defining Engagement
Reviewed by: Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868 Brett L. Walker Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868 BY Robert I. Hellyer. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. Pp. xvi + 281. $39.95. Nearly twenty years after the publication of Ronald P. Toby's State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, the notion that Japan was a "closed country" (sakoku) duri…
Japan at Nature's Edge
This book explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth's environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan's March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of J…
Japan at Nature's Edge
Japan at Nature's Edge
Animals and the Intimacy of History
This article surveys recent historical writings on animals. Its principal concerns are the manner in which historians grant agency to animals and how that agency functions in historical narration. The article examines the histories of animals in Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and North America in order to tease out the similarities and differences of human experiences with other animals. The foundational premise of the article is that humans are …
Mamiya Rinzō and the Japanese Exploration of Sakhalin Island
In this article Walker argues that Japanese imperial processes began much earlier than other scholars often assume; the Tokugawa government was well aware of various geo-political threats that certain countries posed to Japan's national defense in the early 19th century. Specifically, both the Qing Empire and Russia were poised to claim sovereignty over Sakhalin, an island in the North Pacific, through their competing attempts to map the territor…
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Political science (15 works) · History (12 works) · Japanese History and Culture (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (5 works)