Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index.
The consolidation of the early-modern Japanese state in the north -- Shakushain's war -- The ecology of Ainu autonomy and dependence -- Symbolism and environment in trade -- The Sakhalin trade: diplomatic and ecological balance -- The Kuril trade: Russian and the question of boundaries -- Epidemic disease, medicine, and the shifting ecology of Ezo -- The role of ceremony in conquest.
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This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu--the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago--at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era.