Sediments of time : environment and society in Chinese history / edited by Mark Elvin, Liu Tsʻui-jung.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description
2 volumes (xviii, 820 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Studies in environment and history [More in this series]
    Notes
    • Chiefly revised papers presented to the Conference on the History of the Environment in China held December 13-18, 1993 in Hong Kong.
    • A fuller Chinese-language version published under title: Ji jian suo zhi. Taibei Shi Nan'gang qu : Zhong yang yan jiu yuan jing ji yan jiu suo, 1995.
    • English version first published in 1998 in one volume, this volume is a paperback reissue.
    Bibliographic references
    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
    • 9780521563819
    • 052156381X
    OCLC
    631340561
    Other standard number
    • 99936708677
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