China : An Environmental History (9781442277878)

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment. Tracing changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a fifth of humankind, Robert B. Marks illuminates the paradoxes inherent in China's environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China's traditional "heroic" storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature and contacts with other peoples that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet nuanced history for any student interested in China, past or present, or indeed in the world's environmental future.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 468 pages
• Dimensions 190 x 263 x 30mm | 1,002g
• Publication date 28 Feb 2017
• Publisher ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
• Publication City/Country Lanham, MD, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Second Edition
• Illustrations note 2 Tables, unspecified; 37 Maps; 13 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
• ISBN10 1442277874
• ISBN13 9781442277878

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