China
Subtitle: its environment and history
By: Robert B. Marks
Series: World social change
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781442212756; 9781442212770
Subjects: Environmental degradation; Environmental conditions; Nature; Human ecology; History; Human geography; Effect of human beings on
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : problems and perspectives; title: China's natural environment and early human settlement to 1000 BCE; title: States, wars, and farms : environmental change in ancient and early imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE; title: Deforesting the north and colonizing the south in the middle imperial period, 300-1300 CE; title: Empire and environment : China's borderlands, islands, and inner peripheries in late imperial China, 1300-1800 CE; title: Environmental degradation in modern China, 1800-1949; title: Controlling nature in the People's Republic of China, 1949-present; title: Conclusion : China and its environment in world historical perspective.