Format:
Book
Title:
Sediments of time : environment and society in Chinese history / edited by Mark Elvin, Liu Tsʻui-jung.
Publisher, Date:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description:
2 v. (xviii, 820 p.) : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series:
Studies in environment and history
Studies in environment and history.
Subjects:
Ecology -- China -- Congresses.
Environmental sciences -- Congresses.
Human ecology -- China -- History -- Congresses.
China -- Environmental conditions -- History -- Congresses.
Other Author:
Elvin, Mark.
Liu, Cuirong, 1941-
Notes:
Digital reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
"The chapters of this book are, with one commissioned addition, revised versions of the majority of the papers presented to the Conference on the History of the Environment in China held December 13-18, 1993, at the Silvermine Beach Hotel on Lantau, Hong Kong"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Pt.1. China's environmental history in world perspective / J. R. McNeill -- Man's impact on the vegetation and landscape in the Inner Himalaya and Tibet / Wolfgang Holzner and Monika Kriechbaum -- Villagers' view of environmental history in Yunnan province / Nicholas K. Menzies -- Environment versus water control / Shiba Yoshinobu -- Han migration and the settlement of Taiwan / Liu Ts'ui-jung -- Highlands and lowlands / Anne Osborne -- Population and ecology along the frontier in Qing China / Eduard B. Vermeer -- Clear waters versus muddy waters / Pierre-Étienne Will -- Action at a distance / Mark Elvin and Su Ninghu -- It never used to snow / Robert B. Marks -- Changes in climate, land, and human efforts / Li Bozhong -- Pt. 2. Cholera in China, 1820-1930 / Kerrie L. MacPherson -- Environment and tuberculosis in modern China / Zhang Yixia and Mark Elvin -- From the Yellow River to the Huai / Christian Lamouroux -- Official thinking on environmental issues and the state's environmental roles in eighteenth-century China / Helen Dunstan -- Ecologism versus moralism / Paolo Santangelo -- Water, love, and labor / Antonia Finnane -- Nonreclamation deforestation in Taiwan, c. 1600-1976 / Kuo-tung Ch'en -- Hydroelectricity and industrialization / An-Chi Tung -- Environmental problems and perceptions in early industrial Japan / Tessa Morris-Suzuki.
ISBN:
9780521135733 (pt. 1)
0521135737 (pt. 1)
9780521135757 (pt. 2)
0521135753 (pt. 2)
9780521135696
0521135699
Other Number:
631340561
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304.280951 S448
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