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Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China
Contributor(s): Marks, Robert B. (Author), Worster, Donald (Editor), Crosby, Alfred W. (Editor)
ISBN: 0521591775     ISBN-13: 9780521591775
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $132.05  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 1998
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Annotation: Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western environmental historians, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern imperial Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (a region historically known as Lingnan, "South of the Mountains") from 1400 to 1850. Marks discusses the impact of population growth on land use patterns, the agro-ecology, and deforestation; the commercialization of agriculture and its implications; the impact of climatic change on agriculture; and the ways in which the human population responded to environmental challenges.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- History | Europe - Renaissance
Dewey: 333.730
LCCN: 96053322
Series: Studies in Environment & History
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.64 lbs) 408 pages
 
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Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western environmental historians, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern imperial Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (a region historically known as Lingnan, South of the Mountains) from 1400 to 1850. Marks discusses the impact of population growth on land use patterns, the agro-ecology, and deforestation; the commercialization of agriculture and its implications; the impact of climatic change on agriculture; and the ways in which the human population responded to environmental challenges.