Robert B. Marks

China

An Environmental History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment, tracing changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a fifth of humankind.

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Produktdetails

• World Social Change
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 873g
• ISBN-13: 9781442277885
• ISBN-10: 1442277882
• Artikelnr.: 46607103

Autorenporträt

Robert B. Marks is professor of history and environmental studies at Whittier College. His books include Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century, and Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China. He is the recipient of Whittier College's Harry W. Nerhood Teaching Excellence Award.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Chapter
1: Introduction: Problems and Perspectives Chapter 2: China's Natural
Environment and Early Human Settlement to 1000 BCE Chapter 3: States, Wars,
and Farms: Environmental Change in Ancient and Early Imperial China, 1000
BCE-300 CE Chapter 4: Deforesting the North and Colonizing the South in the
Middle Imperial Period, 300-1300 CE Chapter 5: Empire and Environment:
China's Borderlands, Islands, and Inner Peripheries in the Late Imperial
Period, 1300-1800 CE Chapter 6: Environmental Degradation in Modern China,
1800-1949 Chapter 7: "Controlling" Nature in the People's Republic of
China, 1949-Present Chapter 8: Conclusion: China and Its Environment in
World Historical Perspective Select Bibliography Index