1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136596203321

Autore

Zhang Ling <1978->

Titolo

The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 / / Ling Zhang, Boston College [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-316-71921-9

1-316-72341-0

1-316-72281-3

1-316-72401-8

1-316-60969-3

1-316-65929-1

1-316-72641-X

1-316-72461-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in environment and history

Classificazione

HIS003000

Disciplina

951/.1024

Soggetti

Hydraulic engineering - China - Yellow River - History - To 1500

Yellow River (China) History To 1500

Yellow River (China) Environmental conditions

Hebei Sheng (China) Environmental conditions

Hebei Sheng (China) Social conditions

China History Song dynasty, 960-1279

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2016).

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Prologue. 1048: the opening of an environmental drama; Part I. Pre-1048: Prelude to the Environmental Drama: 1. Before the Yellow River met the Hebei Plain; 2. The state's Hebei project; 3. The 1040s: on the eve of the flood; 4. Creating a delta landscape; Part II. Post-1048: The Unfolding of the Environmental Drama: 5. Managing the Yellow River-Hebei environmental complex; 6. Life in the Yellow River Delta; 7. Agriculture: a subsistence-oriented economy; 8. Land and water: a thousand years of environmental trauma; Epilogue. 1128: the close of the environmental drama; Index.



Sommario/riassunto

On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynasty. It created 80 years of social suffering, economic downturn, political upheaval, and environmental changes, which reshaped the medieval North China Plain and challenged the state. Ling Zhang deftly applies textual analysis, theoretical provocation, and modern scientific data in her gripping analysis of how these momentous events altered China's physical and political landscapes and how its human communities adapted and survived. In so doing, she opens up an exciting new field of research by wedding environmental, political, economic, and social history in her examination of one of North China's most significant environmental changes.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910887366703321

Autore

Rossi, Alfio C.

Titolo

Il progresso della meccanizzazione agricola : l'adattamento strutturale e imprenditoriale delle aziende agricole di fronte alla crescente meccanizzazione / Alfio C. Rossi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S. l.], : [s. n.], 1969 ( (Foligno) : Stabilimento tipografico editoriale

Descrizione fisica

205 p. ; 25 cm

Collana

Collana di studi sulla meccanizzazione agricola

Disciplina

338.1

Locazione

FAGBC

Collocazione

A AGR 1206

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In testa al front.: Universita degli studi di Perugia \e! Universita degli studi di Roma, Istituti di economia e politica agraria.