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C o n t e n t s Foreword: the pain of a poisoned world by William Cronon ix Preface xiii Prologue xvii Introduction: Knowing Nature 3 1 The Agency of Insects 22 2 The Agency of Chemicals 45 3 Copper Mining and Ecological Collapse 71 4 Engineering Pain in the Jinzū River Basin 108 5 Mercury’s Offspring 137 6 Hell at the HŌjŌ Colliery 176 Conclusion 211 notes 225 Work s Cited 251 Index 271 ...

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