Robert B. Marks: China | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781442277885 | China | An Environmental History | Robert B. Marks | Taschenbuch

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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.

Über den Autor

Robert B. Marks is professor emeritus 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Empfohlen (bis):	22
Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe , Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781442277885
ISBN-10:	1442277882
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Marks, Robert B.
Auflage:	Second Edition
Hersteller:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	254 x 178 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert B. Marks
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.02.2017
Gewicht:	0,873 kg