LEADER 03574oam 22006374a 450 001 9910563095903321 005 20220622190329.0 010 $a0-295-74734-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000011346924 035 $a(OCoLC)1142881722 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_81786 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88444 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7280543 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7280543 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011346924 100 $a20201203h20202020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFir and Empire$eThe Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China /$fIan M. Miller 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cUniversity of Washington Press$d2020 210 1$aSeattle :$cUniversity of Washington Press,$d[2020] 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 274 pages) 225 1 $aWeyerhaeuser Environmental Books 311 $a0-295-74733-1 330 $aThe disappearance of China?s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country?s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China?s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Miller charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and 1700, when natural forests were replaced with anthropogenic ones. Miller demonstrates that this form of forest management generally rested on private ownership under relatively distant state oversight and taxation. He further draws on in-depth case studies of shipbuilding and imperial logging to argue that this novel landscape was not created through simple extractive pressures, but by attempts to incorporate institutional and ecological complexity into a unified imperial state.Miller uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Because dominant European forestry models do not neatly overlap with the non-Western world, China?s history is often left out of global conversations about them; Miller?s work rectifies this omission and suggests that in some ways, China?s forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions. 410 0$aWeyerhaeuser environmental books 606 $aDeboisement$zChine$xHistoire$2ram 606 $aForesterie$zChine$xHistoire$2ram 606 $aForest management$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00932231 606 $aDeforestation$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00889763 606 $aForest management$zChina$xHistory$y960-1644 606 $aDeforestation$zChina$xHistory$y960-1644 607 $aChine$y1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming)$2ram 607 $aChine$y1260-1368 (Dynastie des Yuan)$2ram 607 $aChine$y960-1279 (Dynastie des Song)$2ram 607 $aChina$2fast 608 $aHistory. 610 $aAsian history 615 7$aDeboisement$xHistoire. 615 7$aForesterie$xHistoire. 615 0$aForest management. 615 0$aDeforestation. 615 0$aForest management$xHistory 615 0$aDeforestation$xHistory 676 $a333.750951 700 $aMiller$b Ian Matthew$4aut$01223091 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910563095903321 996 $aFir and Empire$92837277 997 $aUNINA