Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction-Environment, Modernization, and Development in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History -- Part I: Modernization and Development in Comparative Perspectives -- 1 Agriculture, Population, and Environment in Late Imperial China -- 2 A Case Study of Chinese Migration and Colonial Development in the British Empire, 1860s-1920s -- Part II: Waterscapes: Development, Modernization, and Society

"Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. Using local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan. Through its focus on inter-related material and intellectual aspects of environmental change it also opens up new points of comparison and exchange within East Asia and among East Asia, Europe, and North America. Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia adds significant new perspectives to Chinese, Japanese, and global environmental history, as well as world history and development studies"--From publisher's website