Sediments of Time
Environment and Society in Chinese History (Studies in Environment and History)
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Publication
1998-01-13 - Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Word Count
210,500 words, Guess
Page Count
842 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7746486M
- ISBN-139780521563819
- ISBN-10052156381X
- OCLC Control Number317918738
- OCLC Control Number34691215
Classifications
- LCCQH540.83.C6 S44 1998
Description
This collection of essays is 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 crystallizes 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 combined with an ever-changing climate, shaped a distinctive and often precarious environment.
First Sentence
"Environmental history is the historically documented part of the story of the life and death not of human individuals but of societies, and of species, both others and our own, in terms of their relationships with the world about them."
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