Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain : Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands Hardback
by David A. (Washington and Lee University, Virginia) Bello
Part of the Studies in Environment and History series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:350 pages, 9 Tables, black and white; 5 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/02/2016
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- ISBN:9781107068841
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:350 pages, 9 Tables, black and white; 5 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/02/2016
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- ISBN:9781107068841
