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

by Robert Marks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521027764
• ISBN13: 9780521027762
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"