Professor Totman will explore the effects of three types of resource depletion on pre-industrial Japan: deforestation and scarcity of forest products; depletion of mines, particularly gold and silver mines; full utilization of arable land, and intensification of agriculture. These developments had wide-ranging social consequences in terms of resource management, land use, the monetary system, foreign and domestic trade, village organization, population trends, and the public condition.

The Second Annual Howard J. Wechsler Memorial Lecture

In conjunction with: Department of Anthropology; Department of Economics; Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution; Department of Forestry; Department of Geography; Department of History; Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; Illinois State Natural History Survey; Illinois State Water Survey; Howard J. Wechsler Memorial Lecture Fund in History; Humanities Council / LAS; George A. Miller Committee