The king's harvest a political ecology of China from the first farmers to the first empire / Brian Lander.
| Author/creator | Lander, Brian |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021] |
| Description | xiv, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Yale Agrarian Studies Series Yale agrarian studies. ^A303919 |
| Contents | 1. The Nature of Political Power -- 2. Seeds of Life: How People Came to Build Their Own Ecosystems -- 3. Herding People: The Rise of Political Organizations in China -- 4. The Power in the West: A History of the State of Qin -- 5. Watching Over the Granaries: The Ecology of the Qin Empire -- 6. A Hundred Generations: How China's Empires Shaped Their Environments -- Epilogue: States of the Anthropocene -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
| Summary | This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China's early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China's agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states in ancient China, and elsewhere, was based on their ability to exploit the labor and resources of those who harnessed photosynthetic energy from domesticated plants and animals. Focusing on the state of Qin, Lander amalgamates abundant new scientific, archaeological, and excavated documentary sources to argue that the human domination of the central Yellow River region, and the rest of the planet, was made possible by the development of complex political structures that managed and expanded agroecosystems. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021932808 |
| ISBN | 9780300255089 hardcover |
| ISBN | 030025508X hardcover |
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