The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire

by Brian Lander

A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China's political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological data

"Over four thousand years of unsustainable growth, Chinese states replaced a diverse ecosystem with a monocropping grain state. All states destroy environments, but only the state can save us. So ancient China's spectres still haunt our modern crisis. A brilliant and disturbing analysis!"--Peter C. Perdue,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030025508X
• ISBN13: 9780300255089
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"