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The cultivated forest : people and woodlands in Asian history /

"Modern understandings of forest ecology first emerged in the nineteenth century from forestry schools in Europe and North America. Until recently, Asia was sidelined in histories of wood and woodland. To bring Asia's own cultivation of forests into focus, this volume presents scholarship...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Miller, Ian Matthew (Editor ), Davis, Bradley Camp (Editor ), Lander, Brian (Editor ), Lee, John S. (Researcher in Korean environmental history) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis and John S. Lee
  • Deforestation and Wood Scarcity in Early China / Brian Lander
  • Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. Miller
  • Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan During an Age of Instability, 1475-1635 / John Elijah Bender
  • The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1700-1900 / John S. Lee
  • Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity
  • / Meng Zhang
  • Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China's Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. Bello
  • Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah Zakaria
  • Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle Against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911-1937 / Larissa Pitts
  • Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. Hinckley.