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Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt : Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China.
Challenging conventional Western wisdom, Marks examines the relationship between economic and environmental changes in the imperial Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (a region historically known as Lingnan, 'South of the Mountains') from 1400 to 1850.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Studies in environment and history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; List of Maps, Figures, and Tables; Dynasties, Qing Dynasty Emperors' Reign Dates, Weights and Measures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Fires and Pines A Hundred Spans Round: The Natural Environment of Lingnan; 2: All Deeply Forested and Wild Places are not Malarious: Human Settlement and Ecological Change in Lingnan, 2-1400 CE; 3: Agriculture is the Foundation: Economic Recovery and Development of Lingnan During the Ming Dynasty, 1369-1644; 4: All the People Have Fled: War and the Environment in the Mid-Seventeenth Century Crisis, 1644-83.
- 5: Rich Households Compete to Build Ships: Overseas Trade and Economic Recovery6: It Never Used to Snow: Climatic Change and Agricultural Productivity; 7: There is only a Certain Amount of Grain Produced: Granaries and the Role of the State in the Food Supply System; 8: Trade in Rice is Brisk: Market Integration and the Environment; 9: Population Increases Daily, But the Land Does Not: Land Clearance in the Eighteenth Century; 10: People Said.