Landesque Capital (eBook, ePUB)

The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications
Redaktion: Håkansson, N Thomas; Widgren, Mats

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 281
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315425672
• Artikelnr.: 45260853

Autorenporträt

Edited by Håkansson, N Thomas; Widgren, Mats

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Mats Widgren
N. Thomas Håkansson; Chapter 1 Economics and the Process of Making Farmland
William E. Doolittle; Chapter 2 Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications
Kathleen D. Morrison; Chapter 3 Taro Terraces
Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands
Tim Bayliss-Smith
Edvard Hviding; Chapter 4 World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formation of Landesque Capital Among the Ifugao
the Philippines
N. Thomas Håkansson; Chapter 5 Large-Scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China
1000-1800
Janken Myrdal; Chapter 6 "Stonescape": Farmers' Differential Willingness to Invest in Landesque Capital in Nineteenth Century Sweden
Henrik Svensson; Chapter 7 The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study
Michael Sheridan; Chapter 8 The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life
Matthew I. J. Davies; Chapter 9 Irrigated Fields Are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet
Kenya
Wilhelm Östberg; Chapter 10
Alf Hornborg
Love Eriksen
Ragnheiður Bogadóttir; Chapter 11
Gregory Zaro; Chapter 12
Lowe Börjeson; postscript Postscript
Tim Bayliss-Smith;