China An Environmental History

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Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction: Problems and Perspectives
Chapter 2: China's Natural Environment and Early Human Settlement to 1000 BCE
Chapter 3: States, Wars, and Farms: Environmental Change in Ancient and Early Imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE
Chapter 4: Deforesting the North and Colonizing the South in the Middle Imperial Period, 300-1300 CE
Chapter 5: Empire and Environment: China's Borderlands, Islands, and Inner Peripheries in the Late Imperial Period, 1300-1800 CE
Chapter 6: Environmental Degradation in Modern China, 1800-1949
Chapter 7: "Controlling" Nature in the People's Republic of China, 1949-Present
Chapter 8: Conclusion: China and Its Environment in World Historical Perspective

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