China - An Environmental History

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment, tracing changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a fifth of humankind.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction: Problems and Perspectives
Chapter 2: China's Natural Environment and Early Human Settlement to 1000 BCE
Chapter 3: States, Wars, and Farms: Environmental Change in Ancient and Early Imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE
Chapter 4: Deforesting the North and Colonizing the South in the Middle Imperial Period, 300-1300 CE
Chapter 5: Empire and Environment: China's Borderlands, Islands, and Inner Peripheries in the Late Imperial Period, 1300-1800 CE
Chapter 6: Environmental Degradation in Modern China, 1800-1949
Chapter 7: "Controlling" Nature in the People's Republic of China, 1949-Present
Chapter 8: Conclusion: China and Its Environment in World Historical Perspective

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Index

About the author

By Robert B. Marks

Product details

• Authors: Robert B. Marks, Marks Robert B.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2017
• EAN: 9781442277885
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7788-5
• No. of pages: 468
• Series: World Social Change
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; China, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Asia / China, Environmental Studies, The environment, History: earliest times to present day, Science / Environmental Science, Asian History, General and world history