Isbn: 9781107068841 - across forest, steppe, and mountain: environment, identity, and empire in qing china's borderlands (studies in environment and history) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 350 pages. 9.13x6.57x1.11 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan within a corporatist 'Han Chinese' imperial political order. This unprecedented imperial unification resulted in the great human and ecological diversity that exists today. Using natural science literature in conjunction with under-utilized and new sources in the Manchu language, Bello demonstrates how Qing expansion and consolidation of empire was dependent on a precise and intense manipulation of regional environmental relationships.…

Zustand: New. Using Manchu and Chinese sources, this book explores the environmental history of Qing China's Manchurian, Inner Mongolian, and Yunnan borderlands. Series: Studies in Environment and History. Num Pages: 350 pages, 5 maps 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; JHBT; JHMC; JPH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. . . 2016. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …