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| | Brett L. Walker | Meiji Modernization, Scientific: Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf | ... |
 | | Within months of the 1868 transfer of power, the Meiji emperor, in whose name the Satchô alliance had fought, issued the Charter Oath (gokajô no seimon), a short document that outlined the priorities of the new government. |
 | | For a pioneering discussion of "nature" in Japanese political discourse, including during the early Meiji years, see Julia Adeney Thomas, Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). |
 | | For thoughts on the Satchô alliance and the character of early Meiji governance, see L. Cullen, A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 218–24. |
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