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Coping With Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949 - Couverture rigide

Zhang, Jiayan

 
9780774825955: Coping With Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949
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ISBN 10 : 0774825952 ISBN 13 : 9780774825955
Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2014

Synopsis

The Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Over time, population pressures and dike building left more and more people in the region vulnerable to frequent water calamities. The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the region, Coping with Calamity considers the Jianghan Plain's volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and their often ingenious and sophisticated responses during the Qing and Republican periods.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jiayan Zhang is an associate professor of history at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

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Éditeur
University of British Columbia Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0774825952
ISBN 13 
9780774825955
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
292
Coordonnées du fabricant
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