Contents -- Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy by William Cronon -- Preface -- A Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1. Science and the Creation of the Japanese Wolf -- 2. Culture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred Wolves -- 3. The Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern Japan -- 4. Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido Wolf -- 5. Wolf Bounties and the Ecologies of Progress -- 6. Wolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of Ecology -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.