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Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China

Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China

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Series: Studies in Environment and History

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521027764
ISBN13: 9780521027762
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 2 2006
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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