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100 1 $aElvin, Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83238086
245 14 $aThe retreat of the elephants :$ban environmental history of China /$cMark Elvin.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew Haven, [Conn.] ;$aLondon :$bYale University Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axxviii, 564 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [472]-547) and index.
505 00 $tPatterns --$g1.$tLandmarks and Time-marks --$g2.$tHumans v. Elephants: The Three Thousand Years War --$g3.$tThe Great Deforestation: An Overview --$g4.$tThe Great Deforestation: Regions and Species --$g5.$tWar and the Logic of Short-term Advantage --$g6.$tWater and the Costs of System Sustainability --$tParticularities --$g7.$tRichness to Riches: The Story of Jiaxing --$g8.$tChinese Colonialism: Guizhou and the Miao --$g9.$tThe Riddle of Longevity: Why Zunhua? --$tPerceptions --$g10.$tNature as Revelation --$g11.$tScience and Superfauna --$g12.$tImperial Dogma and Personal Perspectives.
520 1 $a"This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources that allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of the Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape." "Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated the habitat of the elephants that populated the country alongside much of its original wildlife; the destruction of most of the forests; the impact of war on the environmental transformation of the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through water-control systems, some of gigantic size. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century, on the eve of the modern era, was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHuman ecology$zChina$xHistory.
650 0 $aElephants$xMigration$zChina.
650 0 $aDeforestation$zChina$xHistory.
650 0 $aEnvironmental degradation$zChina$xHistory.
651 0 $aChina$xEnvironmental conditions.
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