China its environment and history /

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 w...

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Sonraí bibleagrafaíochta
Príomhchruthaitheoir: Marks, Robert, 1949-
Údar corparáideach: ebrary, Inc
Formáid: Leictreonach Ríomhleabhar
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Lanham [Md.] : Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
Sraith:World social change.
Ábhair:
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 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.