China : an environmental history /: an environmental history. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert B. Marks.
• Authors: Marks, Robert, 1949-
• Contents: 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
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
• Subjects: 304.20951; 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; China -- Environmental conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781442277892
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