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Title: SEDIMENTS OF TIME
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY IN CHINESE HISTORY
By: Mark Elvin, Liu Ts'ui-jung, Donald Worster
Format: Hardback

List price: £135.00


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ISBN 10: 052156381X
ISBN 13: 9780521563819
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 January, 1998
Series: Studies in Environment and History
Pages: 846
Description: This collection of essays is the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China.
Synopsis: This collection of essays was the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China. Written by some of the world's leading Western and Chinese experts, Sediments of Time crystallises a new and distinct field of scholarship that studies what happens when human social systems interact with the rest of the natural world. This book shows how deforestation, land-reclamation, settlement, and water-control, when mixed with an ever-changing climate, shape a distinct and often precarious environment. Pioneering essays explore new methodologies of historical environmental research, comparative perspectives setting China in the context of the West and Japan, and the impact of the early modern ecological transformation on the spread of diseases such as cholera and tuberculosis. This is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand either the foundations of modern China, or the deeper origins of many of China's most daunting contemporary challenges.
Illustrations: 67 b/w illus. 2 colour illus. 40 maps 24 tables
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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