Andrew W. Bernstein Fuji review, recensie en informatie boek over de beroemdste berg en vulkaan van Japan. Op 23 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Andrew W. Bernstein over de berg Fuji. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Andrew W. Bernstein Fuji review en recensie
- “Andrew Bernstein has written an unusually comprehensive history of Mount Fuji. His scholarly engagement is wide-ranging, treating the reader to a remarkable array of approaches—from earth science and economics to poetry, art, and religion. The fruit of many years’ research, Fuji offers penetrating perspectives on a sacred volcano’s convulsive life.” (Kären Wigen, author of A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600–1912)
- “A historical tour de force, this biography of Japan’s most famous mountain begins in distant geological times, moves across centuries of change in religious, economic, military, ideological, and environmental factors, and ends its admirably transdisciplinary account at the edge of the future. Kaleidoscopic, informative, beguiling, its essay-like chapters are also a pleasure to read.” (Carol Gluck, author of Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period)
Fuji
A Mountain in the Making
- Auteur: Andrew W. Berstein (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: geschiedenis van de berg Fuji in Japan
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Princeton University Press
- Verschijnt: 23 september 2025
- Omvang: 352 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 35.00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van het boek over de berg Fuji in Japan
Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instilled fear. Long an object of worship, Fuji has been inhabited by deities that changed radically over time. It has been both a totem of national unity and a flashpoint for economic and political disputes. And while its soaring majesty has inspired countless works of literature and art, the foot of the mountain is home to military training grounds and polluting industries. Tracing the history of Fuji from its geological origins in the remote past to its recent inscription as a World Heritage Site, Andrew Bernstein explores these and other contradictions in the story of the mountain, inviting us to reflect on the relationships we share with the nonhuman world and one another.
Beautifully illustrated, Fuji presents a rich portrait of one of the world’s most celebrated sites, revealing a mountain forever in the making and offering a meditation on the ability of landscape both to challenge and inspire.
Andrew W. Bernstein is professor of history at Lewis & Clark College and the author of Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan.
