China : its environment and history / Robert B. Marks.
By: Marks, Robert.
Material type: Text Language of document:EnglishSeries: Publisher: Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2012Edition: Description: Description: xxi, 438 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9781442212756.Other title: Uniform titles: Subject(s): Human ecology -- History. -- China | Human geography -- China -- History | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History. -- China | Environmental degradation -- History. -- ChinaDDC classification: 304.20951Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library Social Science | 304.20951 M3427 Ch (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 242953 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-407) and index.
Problems and perspectives -- China's natural environment and early human settlement to 1000 BCE -- States, wars, and farms: environmental change in ancient and early imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE -- Deforesting the north and colonizing the south in the middle imperial period, 300-1300 CE -- Empire and environment: China's borderlands, islands, and inner peripheries in the late imperial period, 1300-1800 CE -- Environmental degradation in modern China, 1800-1949 -- Controlling nature in the People's Republic of China, 1949-present -- China and its environment in world historical perspective.
This book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, the author traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China's environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China's traditional "heroic" storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. And also, he makes the compelling argument that all of humanity has a stake in China's environmental future.
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