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Across forest, steppe and mountain : environment, identity and empire in Qing China's borderlands / David A. Bello, Washington and Lee University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bello, David Anthony, 1963-
- Series:
- Studies in environment and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--China--History.
- Environmental policy.
- Human ecology--Political aspects.
- History.
- Human ecology.
- Imperialism.
- Ethnicity.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Pastoral systems.
- Hunting and gathering societies.
- Borderlands.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- China.
- Borderlands--Environmental aspects--China--History.
- Hunting and gathering societies--China--Manchuria--History.
- Pastoral systems--China--Inner Mongolia--History.
- Indigenous peoples--China--Yunnan Sheng--History.
- Ethnicity--Environmental aspects--China--History.
- Imperialism--Environmental aspects--China--History.
- Human ecology--Political aspects--China--History.
- Sustainability--Political aspects--China--History.
- Sustainability.
- China--Yunnan Sheng.
- China--Inner Mongolia.
- China--Manchuria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 336 pages) : map.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Qing Fields in Theory & Practice
- The Nature of Imperial Foraging in the SAH Basin
- The Nature of Imperial Pastoralism in Southern Inner Mongolia
- The Nature of Imperial Indigenism in Southwestern Yunnan
- Borderland Hanspace in the Nineteenth Century
- Qing Environmentality.
- Notes:
- The multicultural Qing is reconsidered in "multi-ecological" terms of three borderland case studies from northeastern Manchuria, south-central Inner Mongolia, and southwestern Yunnan. Human pursuit of game, tending of livestock, and susceptibility to disease vectors required imperial adaptation beyond the cultural constructs of banners or chieftainships in order to maintain a "sustainable Qing periphery" based on these environmental relations between people and animals. The resulting borderland spaces are, therefore, not simply contrivances of more anthropocentric administrative fiat, but environmental interdependencies constructed through more "organic" and conditional relations of imperial foraging, imperial pastoralism, and imperial indigenism.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-319) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781107706095
- 1107706092
- Publisher Number:
- 99985164178
- 40025852839
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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