Brett L. Walker is Regents' Professor and department chairperson of history and philosophy at Montana State University, Bozeman, and the author of The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800.

"Well illustrated and stylishly written, The Lost Wolves of Japan is a wolf's-eye view of premodern Japanese culture and the modern state's drive for modernization. . . . an excellent book easily worth the time to read it. Well written and imaginatively illustrated, this monograph is as fascinating as it is timely."

• Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy / William CrononPrefaceA Note to the ReaderIntroductionScience and the Creation of the Japanese WolfCulture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred WolvesThe Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern JapanMeiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido WolfWolf Bounties and the Ecologies of ProgressWolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of EcologyAppendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881NotesWorks CitedIndex

Brett L. Walker is Regents' Professor and department chairperson of history and philosophy at Montana State University, Bozeman, and the author of The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800.

"Well illustrated and stylishly written, The Lost Wolves of Japan is a wolf's-eye view of premodern Japanese culture and the modern state's drive for modernization. . . . an excellent book easily worth the time to read it. Well written and imaginatively illustrated, this monograph is as fascinating as it is timely."

• Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy / William CrononPrefaceA Note to the ReaderIntroductionScience and the Creation of the Japanese WolfCulture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred WolvesThe Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern JapanMeiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido WolfWolf Bounties and the Ecologies of ProgressWolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of EcologyAppendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881NotesWorks CitedIndex

Brett L. Walker is Regents' Professor and department chairperson of history and philosophy at Montana State University, Bozeman, and the author of The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800.

"Well illustrated and stylishly written, The Lost Wolves of Japan is a wolf's-eye view of premodern Japanese culture and the modern state's drive for modernization. . . . an excellent book easily worth the time to read it. Well written and imaginatively illustrated, this monograph is as fascinating as it is timely."

• Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy / William CrononPrefaceA Note to the ReaderIntroductionScience and the Creation of the Japanese WolfCulture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred WolvesThe Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern JapanMeiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido WolfWolf Bounties and the Ecologies of ProgressWolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of EcologyAppendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881NotesWorks CitedIndex