The King's Harvest - Brian Lander

The King's Harvest

A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2022
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-25508-9 (ISBN)
39,25 inkl. MwSt
A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China’s political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological data
 
“Over four thousand years of unsustainable growth, Chinese states replaced a diverse ecosystem with a monocropping grain state. All states destroy environments, but only the state can save us. So ancient China's spectres still haunt our modern crisis. A brilliant and disturbing analysis!”—Peter C. Perdue, author of Environmental History in China and the West: Its Origins and Prospects
 
This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China’s early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China’s agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states in ancient China, and elsewhere, was based on their ability to exploit the labor and resources of those who harnessed photosynthetic energy from domesticated plants and animals. Focusing on the state of Qin, Lander amalgamates abundant new scientific, archaeological, and excavated documentary sources to argue that the human domination of the central Yellow River region, and the rest of the planet, was made possible by the development of complex political structures that managed and expanded agroecosystems.

Brian Lander is assistant professor of history at Brown University and a fellow of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Zusatzinfo 26 b-w illus.
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-300-25508-X / 030025508X
ISBN-13 978-0-300-25508-9 / 9780300255089
Zustand Neuware
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