He is also Faculty Dean of Cabot House at Harvard. He is the author of The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo (2013), co-editor of Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (2013), and co-editor of the forthcoming Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Global and Pacific History. He teaches in the Harvard Department of History and holds affiliate appointments in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and History of Science. Miller is a cultural historian of Japan with a particular specialization in environmental history. This Pascal guide will explain everything about the red otter, from his love of Scallops to what you can do to get him to appear. Using Japan’s peculiar case-an immense archipelagic economy utterly dependent on overseas sources of energy-I will explore the relationship between cultural history and climate history by tracing the specific movements of energy through the infrastructures that have come to define modernity in a country often held up as a technological leader. In a well-known pattern, steam amplified demands on bodies by changing patterns of human and non-human labor. 0 0 An eternity bends ever-near, yet just as far as you left it. You may move towards me, yet distant I stay. What am I 0 0 I'm always there, some distance away. Test your math skills and word play with answers included. The rise of coal did not reduce demand for physical labor. 0 0 You see over the horizon with me at the bottom, you can drink me but too much may kill you. Test your smarts with the 101 best riddles, including easy and funny riddles for kids, and hard riddles for adults. Coal consumption increased for the next fifty years (and is growing again), with only one exceptional decline: the final, lethal frenzy of the Japanese Empire’s collapse from 1943-1946. The advent of hydroelectricity did not lead to a reduction in demand for coal. Japan’s energy history is a history of energy accretions, each form layering over the top of what came before, reshaping the horizons of human agency in the process. The story of Japanese modernization is one of almost unrelenting growth in energy consumption. Japan built an empire in pursuit of energy: labor and food calories, coal, hydroelectric sites, and oil. The country is the world’s third-largest economy it imports 95% of its primary energy. What is the relationship between everyday human culture and the global realities of anthropogenic climate change? My current book project, “Fueling Tokyo: Japan in the Age of Global Energy,” takes up this problem, knitting together histories of people, resources, technologies, and infrastructures to help us better understand the cultural connections that have fueled the Anthropocene in Japan. Hybrid Event (Please select your menthod of attendance during your registration)
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