Sediments of Time : Environment and Society in Chinese History (Studies in Environment and History)
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'Sediments of Time is an important achievement, a comprehensive and competent treatise on a crucial aspect of China's past that has enormous implications for China's present and future.' Journal of Asian Studies
'Sediments of Time is a pioneering effort in Chinese environmental history ... [it] is an important addition to the scholarship on Chinese history and will no doubt encourage more research.' JOSA
Book Description
The first comprehensive survey of Chinese environmental history, this book crystallizes a new field of scholarship that studies the creation of distinct environments as a result of the interaction of human social systems with the natural world. Pioneering essays explore new methodologies of historical environmental research, comparisons of China with the West and Japan, and the impact of the early modern ecological transformation on the spread of disease. An indispensable book for those trying to understand the foundations of modern China or the origins of many of contemporary China's most daunting challenges.
Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History (Studies in Environment and History),Mark Elvin,Ts'ui-jung Liu,Donald Worster,Alfred W. Crosby,Cambridge University Press,052156381X,Asia - China,China,Cultural And Social Anthropology,Ecology,Environmental sciences,History - General History,History: World,Life Sciences - Ecology,Medieval,Natural Resources,Science,Asian / Middle Eastern history,BCE to c 500 CE,Ecology--China,History / Medieval,Human ecology,Prehistory,c 1000 CE to c 1500
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