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Author Marks, Robert B

Title Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt : Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (409 pages)
Series Studies in Environment and History
Studies in environment and history.
Contents Preliminaries; List of Maps, Figures, and Tables; Dynasties, Qing Dynasty Emperors' Reign Dates, Weights and Measures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Fires and Pines A Hundred Spans Round: The Natural Environment of Lingnan; 2: All Deeply Forested and Wild Places are not Malarious: Human Settlement and Ecological Change in Lingnan, 2-1400 CE; 3: Agriculture is the Foundation: Economic Recovery and Development of Lingnan During the Ming Dynasty, 1369-1644; 4: All the People Have Fled: War and the Environment in the Mid-Seventeenth Century Crisis, 1644-83
5: Rich Households Compete to Build Ships: Overseas Trade and Economic Recovery6: It Never Used to Snow: Climatic Change and Agricultural Productivity; 7: There is only a Certain Amount of Grain Produced: Granaries and the Role of the State in the Food Supply System; 8: Trade in Rice is Brisk: Market Integration and the Environment; 9: Population Increases Daily, But the Land Does Not: Land Clearance in the Eighteenth Century; 10: People Said
Summary Challenging conventional Western wisdom, Marks examines the relationship between economic and environmental changes in the imperial Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (a region historically known as Lingnan, 'South of the Mountains') from 1400 to 1850
Notes Print version record
Subject Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- China -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- China -- History
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- China -- History
Economic development -- Environmental aspects
Economic history
Human beings -- Effect of environment on
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Qing Dynasty (China)
SUBJECT Guangdong Sheng (China) -- Economic conditions
Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China) -- Economic conditions
China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024072
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024078
Subject China
China -- Guangdong Sheng
China -- Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511054297
0511054297