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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162795003321

Autore

Marks Robert <1949->

Titolo

China : an environmental history / / Robert B. Marks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4422-7789-0

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Collana

World social change

Disciplina

304.20951

Soggetti

Human ecology - China - History

Human geography - China - History

Nature - Effect of human beings on - China - History

Social change - Environmental aspects - China - History

Environmental degradation - China - History

Landscape changes - China - History

Electronic books.

China Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First edition, 2012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"Now in an updated edition, this deeply informed and beautifully written book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, Robert B. Marks traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind"--



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