This landmark account of China’s environmental history, written by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist, "should stand for decades to come as a unique statement on motives, processes, perceptions and consequences of environmental change in China.” (Jennifer L. Mnookin, American Scientist) This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand year...(展开全部)

This landmark account of China’s environmental history, written by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist, "should stand for decades to come as a unique statement on motives, processes, perceptions and consequences of environmental change in China.” (Jennifer L. Mnookin, American Scientist) This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand year...(展开全部)

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides, previously published with the slightly different title China: Its Environment and History, a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, China: An Environmental History focuses on the interaction of humans and thei...(展开全部)

马立博（Robert B. Marks， 又译罗伯特•B•马克斯），1978 年获威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校中国史专业博士学位，长期任教于加州惠特尔学院， 现任Richard and Billie Deihl历史学讲座教授。马立博教授在中国史、全球史和环境史等领域均著作颇丰， 他的论文“Commercialization without Capitalism: Processes of Environmental Change in South China,1550-1850” 曾获1997 年美国环境史学会Environmental History 杂志最佳论文奖。除本书以外，他的主要著作还包括RuralRevolution in South China (1984)，TheMaking of the Modern World ( 合著，1988，19...(展开全部)

The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near extin...(展开全部)

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China – kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory – all of them tending toward the elephant's ext...(展开全部)

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China – kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory – all of them tending toward the elephant's ext...(展开全部)

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-...(展开全部)

- Follows the evolution of environmental history from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies. - Authors both review past developments in environmental history and project future trends. - Original articles by 27 authors. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches ...(展开全部)

- Follows the evolution of environmental history from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies. - Authors both review past developments in environmental history and project future trends. - Original articles by 27 authors. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches ...(展开全部)