Turbulent Streams

Roderick I. Wilson, Ph.D., Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he teaches and writes about topics in Japanese and environmental history.

"Wilson’s careful attention to the literature in Japanese and English andto questions of method and approach are present throughout. Altogether thisis an important new contribution to the fast-developing fi eld of Japaneseenvironmental history and has major implications for the urban history ofEdo/Tokyo especially." – Mark Metzler, in The Journal of Japanese Studies 49.1, pp. 162-167 (2023) "Roderick Wilson’s Turbulent Streams makes another fine contribution to this growingbody of literature on Japanese environmental history, exploring the early modernTokugawa era to well into the twentieth century. The book draws on a considerablevolume of Japanese-language secondary sources that focus exclusively on Japan andalso takes inspiration from well-known theoreticians and practitioners who make upthe core of English-language environmental historical studies."– Philip C. Brown, in Monumenta Nipponica 77.1, pp. 140-145 (2022)

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesNote to ReadersIntroduction1 A Riparian History of Ogura Lake2 Crossing the River between Nature and Society3 Riparian Relations: An Expanded Understanding of Rivers4 Chapter OrganizationPart 1: Regional River Regimes in the Tokugawa Period1 Riparian Relations in the Kantō Region1 Producing the Kantō Region and Its Riverscapes during the Seventeenth Century2 Water Worlds of Farmers, Fishers, and Boat Pilots3 Conclusion2 Regional River Regime under the Tokugawa Government1 Establishing Tokugawa Governance over the Waters of the Kantō Region, 1590–17002 Maintaining Riparian Governance in the Kantō Region, 1700–17833 Losing Ground against Continued Flooding, 1783–18684 ConclusionPart 2: Techno-Politics of River Engineering in Imperial Japan3 Engineering and River Engineers in the Age of Imperialism1 The Home Ministry’s Early Riparian Policies2 The Fudō River Worksite3 Dutch Engineers in Japan4 Educating Japanese Engineers: The French Connection5 Conclusion4 Confluence along the Yodo River1 The Yodo River2 Home Ministry Engineers3 Local Communities4 Conclusion5 Constructing the Modern River Regime in Japan1 Making Modern River Regimes2 Techno-Politics of Flood Control3 The 1910 Flooding of Tokyo and Paris4 The Effects of Building Japan’s Modern River Regime5 ConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex