The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 / Ling Zhang, Boston College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Ling, 1978- author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Series:

Studies in environment and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hydraulic engineering.

History.

Yellow River (China)--History--To 1500.

Yellow River (China).

Yellow River (China)--Environmental conditions.

Hydraulic engineering--China--Yellow River--History--To 1500.

Hebei Sheng (China)--Environmental conditions.

Hebei Sheng (China).

Hebei Sheng (China)--Social conditions.

China--History--Song dynasty, 960-1279.

China.

China--Yellow River.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 318 pages) : illustration, maps.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Prologue. 1048: the opening of an environmental drama

Part I. Pre-1048: Prelude to the Environmental Drama

Before the Yellow River met the Hebei Plain

The state's Hebei project

The 1040s: on the eve of the flood

Creating a delta landscape

Part II. Post-1048: The Unfolding of the Environmental Drama

Managing the Yellow River-Hebei environmental complex

Life in the Yellow River Delta

Agriculture: a subsistence-oriented economy

Land and water: a thousand years of environmental trauma

Epilogue. 1128: the close of the environmental drama.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 291-307) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781316659298

1316659291

Publisher Number:

99975237249

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