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by Mark W. Driscoll


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In The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Mark W. Driscoll examines nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and the devastating effects of "climate caucasianism"--the white West's pursuit of rapacious extraction at the expense of natural environments and people of color conflated with them. Drawing on an array of primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, and French, Driscoll reframes the Opium Wars as "wars for drugs" and demonstrates that these wars to unleash narco- and human traffickers kickstarted the most important event of the Anthropocene: the military substitution of Qing China's world-leading carbon-neutral economy for an unsustainable Anglo-American capitalism powered by coal. Driscoll also reveals how subaltern actors, including outlaw societies and dispossessed samurai groups, became ecological protectors, defending their locales while driving decolonization in Japan and overthrowing a millennia of dynastic rule in China. Driscoll contends that the methods of these protectors resonate with contemporary Indigenous-led movements for environmental justice.

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  • Title The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection
  • Author Mark W. Driscoll
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2021-01-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781478011217 / 1478011211
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.78 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.98 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects China - History - 19th century, Japan - History - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020018211
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.280

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Mark W. Driscoll is Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is author of Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japanese Imperialism, 1895-1945, and the editor and translator of "Kannani" and "Document of Flames" Two Japanese Colonial Novels, both also published by Duke University Press.
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