Ebook: China: Its Environment and History
Author: Robert B. Marks
- Tags: China, Asia, History, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Archaeology, Essays, Historical Geography, Historical Maps, Historiography, Reference, Study & Teaching, History, Human Geography, Social Sciences, Politics & Social Sciences, Asia, History, Humanities, New Used & Rental Textbooks, Specialty Boutique, Geography, Social Sciences, New Used & Rental Textbooks, Specialty Boutique
- Series: World Social Change
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Language: English
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This deeply informed and beautifully written book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, Robert B. Marks traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China’s environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China’s traditional “heroic” storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet nuanced history for any reader interested in China, past or present. Indeed he argues successfully that all of humanity has a stake in China’s environmental future.
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