Overview
- Demonstrates the ways in which modernisation and development are intrinsically linked to the physical environment
- Suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan
- Opens up new points of comparison and exchange within East Asia and among East Asia, Europe, and North America
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History (PSWEH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction—Environment, Modernization, and Development in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History
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Modernization and Development in Comparative Perspectives
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Waterscapes: Development, Modernization, and Society
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About this book
Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.
Reviews
"This wide-ranging collaboration is packed with material that will intrigue, excite, and inform readers at all levels of scholarship. Those interested in East Asia, modernization, and long-term environmental change will find tremendous utility in the chapters assembled here." - Edward D. Melillo, Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Amherst College, USA
A fascinating buffet of chapters on East Asian environmental history, exploring, within Chinese and Japanese cultural contexts, the problem of how appropriately to link the multifaceted environment with the rest of history. Ts`ui-jung Liu and James Beattie have, as editors, done an impressively well-judged job of bringing together cultural depth with a critical awareness of current theoretical insights.' – Mark Elvin, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK
"This wide-ranging collaboration is packed with material that will intrigue, excite, and inform readers at all levels of scholarship. Those interested in East Asia, modernization, and long-term environmental change will find tremendous utility in the chapters assembled here." - Edward D. Melillo, Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Amherst College, USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
James Beattie is Director of the Historical Research Unit at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where he teaches imperial, environmental, garden, and world history. He has published three monographs, co-edited three books, and written over 50 articles and chapters on topics in imperial environmental history, history of science, garden history, and art history. He is Founding Editor of International Review of Environmental History.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Environmental History
Editors: Ts’ui-jung Liu, James Beattie
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57231-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57230-1Published: 08 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95849-8Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57231-8Published: 08 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-9746
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 301
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Asian History, Environment, general, Human Geography