China : an environmental history / / Robert B. Marks
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| Autore: |
Marks Robert <1949->
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| Titolo: |
China : an environmental history / / Robert B. Marks
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Edizione: | Second edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (469 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Disciplina: | 304.20951 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Environmental conditions |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | China |
| ISBN: | 1-4422-7789-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910162795003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
World social change.