[KS] New Book Announcement: Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

[David Fedman]

Dear Colleagues,

I'm excited to share that my book, Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of
Forestry in Colonial Korea
<https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295747453/seeds-of-control/>, has just
been published by the University of Washington Press. The book, in essence,
is my attempt to write empire more fully into Japanese environmental
history and to write the Japanese empire into global environmental history.

Here's a brief description:

Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource
management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the
peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest
love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and
routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food
preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea’s forest
resources into supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan’s imperial
sphere. These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after
1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total war.

In this wide-ranging study, David Fedman explores Japanese imperialism
through the lens of forest management in colonial Korea—a project of
environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny
the notion of conservation, *Seeds of Control *examines the roots of
Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and
aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.” Drawing from
sources in Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese
environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green
imperialism in Asia.

You can order the book through Amazon or the UW Press website here:

https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295747453/seeds-of-control/

Thanks and best wishes,
David Fedman

Department of History
UC Irvine
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