{"product_id":"forces-of-nature-david-fedman-9781501768781","title":"Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForces of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e aims to define and develop the field of the Korean environmental humanities.\u003c\/b\u003e At its core, the volume works to foreground non-human agents that have long been marginalized in Korean studies, placing flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic conditions that have hitherto been confined to footnotes front and center. In the process, the authors blaze new trails through Korea's social and physical landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is a deeper appreciation of the environmental conflicts that have animated life in Korea. The authors show how natural processes have continually shaped the course of events on the peninsula--how floods, droughts, famines, fires, and pests have inexorably impinged on human affairs--and how different forces have been mobilized by the state to variously, control, extract, modernize, and showcase the Korean landscape. \u003ci\u003eForces of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e suggestively reveals Korea's physical landscape to be not so much a passive context to Korea's history, but an active agent in its transformation and reinvention across centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Fedman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501768786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501768781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2024","brand":"David Fedman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069454217471,"sku":"9781501768781","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b11fd8a1-79ea-48b5-8f95-edaf0808404e.jpg?v=1685424800","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forces-of-nature-david-fedman-9781501768781","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}