Environmental History in the Pacific World

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Contents: General editor's preface Introduction Commercialization without capitalism: processes of environmental change in South China, 1550-1850, Robert Marks Three thousand years of unsustainable growth: China's environment from archaic times to the present, Mark Elvin Of rats and men: a synoptic environmental history of the island Pacific, J. R. McNeill Coming to terms with nature: state and environment in maritime southeast Asia, Greg Bankoff Peripheral visions: Californian-Australian environmental contacts, c.1850s-1910, Ian Tyrrell Biotic change in 19th-century New Zealand, Alfred W. Crosby Population of the French overseas territories in the Pacific: past, present, and projected, J.-Louis Rallu Hydraulic society in California: an ecological interpretation, Donald Worster Humans and forests in pre-colonial southeast Asia, Anthony Reid Discrepancies between environmental attitude and behaviour: examples from Europe and China, Yi-Fu Tuan Toward an interactive theory of nature and culture: ecology, production, and cognition in the California fishing industry, Arthur E. McEvoy Putting a ceiling on sealing: conservation and co-operation in the international arena, 1909-1911, Kurk Dorsey A sacred mountain of gold: the creation of a mining resource frontier in Papua New Guinea, David Hyndman Ecology and the poor: a neglected dimension of Latin American history, Joan Martinez-Alier Patterns of landscape modification in relation to agricultural practice in Central Chile, Eduardo R. Fuentes and Ernst R. Hajek Resource use and environmental management in Japan, 1890-1990, A. Radha Krishnan and Malcolm Tull The forests of Tokugawa Japan: a catastrophe that was avoided, Conrad Totman Index.

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