Environmental histories of Korea and the Korean landscape remain scant in the English-language scholarly corpus. Studies like David Fedman’s Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea represent some of the first book-length contributions (in English) to this emerging field. Fedman’s first monograph makes interdisciplinary contributions that will appeal to scholars across disciplinary frameworks who study forestry, colonialism, the environment, the Japanese Empire, and Korea. The book not only draws attention to imperial forestry in a region that is frequently overlooked in conversations of global environmental history and colonial forestry, but it also reframes conservation as a tool of imperialism, expanding understandings of colonial violence in the Japanese Empire to include silvicultural rhetoric and policy. While Seeds of Control focuses on the Korean peninsula geographically, Fedman’s insights about Japanese forestry ideology also inform environmental histories of the “green archipelago” in his exploration of colonial policies of reforestation and assimilation. The arguments made in Seeds of Control

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控制的种子：日本在韩国的林业帝国。大卫·费德曼。西雅图：华盛顿大学出版社，2020. ix, 292 p [ISBN: 9780295747453]

韩国的环境历史和韩国景观在英语学术语料库中仍然很少。像大卫·费德曼（David Fedman）的《控制的种子：日本在朝鲜殖民地的林业帝国》等研究代表了对这一新兴领域的一些第一本长篇著作（英文）的贡献。Fedman 的第一部专着做出了跨学科贡献，将吸引跨学科框架研究林业、殖民主义、环境、日本帝国和韩国的学者。这本书不仅关注了这个地区在全球环境史和殖民林业的对话中经常被忽视的帝国林业，而且还将保护重新定义为帝国主义的工具，扩大了对日本帝国殖民暴力的理解，包括造林修辞和政策。虽然《控制的种子》在地理上侧重于朝鲜半岛，但费德曼对日本林业意识形态的见解也在他探索重新造林和同化的殖民政策时为“绿色群岛”的环境史提供了信息。在控制种子中提出的论点