Title Tigers, rice, silk, and silt : environment and economy in late imperial south China / Robert B. Marks.

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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 383 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series	Studies in environment and history
	Studies in environment and history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-370) and index.
Contents	Firs and pines a hundred spans round: the natural environment of Lingnan -- All deeply forested and wild places are not malarious: human settlement and ecological change, 2-1400 AD -- Agriculture is the foundation: economic recovery and development in the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 -- All the people have fled: war and the environment in the mid-17th century crisis, 1644-1683 -- Rich households compete to build ships: overseas trade and economic revival -- It never used to snow: climate change and agricultural productivity -- There is only a certain amount of grain produced: the role of the state in the food supply system -- Trade in rice is brisk: market integration and the environment -- Population increases daily, but the land does not: the story of land clearance in the 18th century -- People said that extinction was not possible: the ecological consequences of land clearance.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- China -- History.
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- China -- History.
	Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- China -- History.
	Guangdong Sheng (China) -- Economic conditions.
	Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China) -- Economic conditions.
	China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
	China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
	NATURE -- Natural Resources.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
	Economic development -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00901808
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Human beings -- Effect of environment on. (OCoLC)fst00962843
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
	Qing Dynasty (China) (OCoLC)fst01696773
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
	China -- Guangdong Sheng. (OCoLC)fst01211821
	China -- Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu. (OCoLC)fst01210512
	Tijgers.
	Rijst.
	Zijde.
	Slik.
	Economische geschiedenis.
	Milieuvraagstuk.
	Zuid-China.
Chronological Term	1368-1912
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Marks, Robert, 1949- Tigers, rice, silk, and silt. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521591775 (DLC) 96053322 (OCoLC)36122069
ISBN	0511008260 (electronic bk.)
	9780511008269 (electronic bk.)
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	0511116756 (electronic bk.)
	9780511116759 (electronic bk.)

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