Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History

by Mark Elvin and Ts'ui-jung Liu

Book Overview

The first comprehensive survey of Chinese environmental history, this book crystallizes a new field of scholarship that studies the creation of distinct environments as a result of the interaction of human social systems with the natural world. Pioneering essays explore new methodologies of historical environmental research, comparisons of China with the West and Japan, and the impact of the early modern ecological transformation on the spread of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052156381X
• ISBN13: 9780521563819
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 846 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"