Ts'ui-jung (Hrsg.) Liu

Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia

Changes in the Land, Water and Air

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This edited volume engages with some of the most dynamic themes in current research on East Asian environmental history, including agricultural science, war and the environment, imperial forestry, oceanic history, and the history of energy.Chapters in this book supply an overview of environmental history as a rapidly expanding field, continuing to generate valuable insights into the mutually constitutive relationship between human societies and the biophysical environment. The book is divided into three parts: Part I consists of three chapters related to land use, while Part II includes five chapters that focus on water, a topic of perennial… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Muscolino, Micah (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-00-033403-6
EAN: 9781000334036
Produktnummer: 35428823
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 250 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 5'003 KB
Abbildungen: 3 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Ts'ui-jung Liu is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. She gained her B.A. and M.A. from National Taiwan University and PhD from Harvard University. She was elected Academician of Academia Sinica in 1996. She served as Vice President of Academia Sinica between 2003 and 2009. Micah Muscolino is Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China and The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938-1950. In addition to these books, he has published articles on China's place in global environmental history, maritime connections between Mainland China and Taiwan, energy history, and the history of territorial disputes in the South China Sea. His current research focuses on the history of soil and water conservation in Northwest China's Loess Plateau region from the 1940s to the 1970s.