The king's harvest : a political ecology of China from the first farmers to the first empire /
Brian Lander.
Bok Engelsk 2021 · Electronic books.
Omfang | 1 online resource (317 pages)
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Opplysninger | Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Chronology -- Chronology of the Zhou Era -- Introduction -- 1. The Nature of Political Power -- 2. Seeds of Life: How People Came to Build Their Own Ecosystems -- 3. Herding People: The Rise of Political Organizations in China -- 4. The Power in the West: A History of the State of Qin -- 5. Watching Over the Granaries: The Ecology of the Qin Empire -- 6. A Hundred Generations: How China's Empires Shaped Their Environments -- Epilogue: States of the Anthropocene -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index.. - A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China's political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological data.
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ISBN | 9780300255089
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