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..., “Mt. Tambora, Climatic Changes, and China’s Decline in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of World History 23, no. 3 (Sept. 2012): 587-607. On the connections between disasters and insurgencies, see Kang Peizhu, Zaihuang yu wan Qing zhengzhi (Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe, 2002), 93-105; Zhang...

...Macabe Keliher A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule . By Jonathan Schlesinger . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2017 . 288 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8047-9996-6. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019...

...Eric Schluessel Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market . By Kwangmin Kim . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 312 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8047-9923-2 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book...

...Mark E. Frank Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands . By David A. Bello . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 350 pp., $99.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1070-6884-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018...

..., and Empire in Qing China s Borderlands. By David A. Bello. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 350 pp., $99.99, hardback, ISBN 978-1-1070-6884-1. There is general fatigue with declensionist narratives in environmental history, and yet I find myself invigorated by the contention of Across Forest...

... officials held, was vital to the integrity of the Qing multiethnic empire. In this way, the Qing response was thoroughly a political one, not an environmental or economic one. As Schlesinger writes, The empire did not preserve nature in its borderlands; it invented it (4). Schlesinger tells this story...

..., and nation-states, it is now time to rethink this paradigm. Erin McKenna University of Oregon Europe and Asia Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria. Edited by Norman Smith. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. 316 pp., $34.95, paperback, ISBN 9780-7748-3290-8. Covering wide-ranging topics from the Qing...

... touch. Curiously absent from the book s title is Zuo Zongtang, the Hunanese scholar, agricultural expert, and military strategist whose exploits anchor all six chapters of a concise history of frontier development under the late Qing dynasty. Zuo s biography serves as an effective counterweight...

... Reviews 139 posed by imperial intermediaries. Nevertheless, the return to economic and agricultural history in Xinjiang is a welcome one. Kim s narrative will bear testing against local sources. Kim is convincing in arguing that borderland capitalism was part of the Qing empire s repertoire of expansion...

... in practice that lays the blame equally at the feet of South Vietnamese and American actors. Jessica M. Chapman Williams College Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market. By Kwangmin Kim. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 312 pp., $65.00, hardback...

... with more aggressive Qing efforts to incorporate Mongol pasturelands through economic policies and Han Chinese peasant settlement. He also uses the racialized response to the Manchurian epidemic in and around the border town of Manzhouli to describe the tensions between border openness and increasingly...

... village in Japan in 1948. Wang Ning offers a comparative examination of the life of political exiles sent to the Heilongjiang area during the Qing and PRC periods. Wang shows that exiles in the PRC period were subjected to intensive forced labor in numerous Communist Party labor camps and military farms...

... of the Qing government. Picturing California's Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley. Edited by Heath Schenker. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1999. 200 pp., $35.00, pa? perback, ISBN 1-890771-25-2. This book is the product of a collaboration between Heath Schenker and the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California...

.... The most significant human response to these waterlogged conditions, systematically begun in the ming dynasty then expanded through the Qing and republican periods, was state and private diking. dike construction and maintenance became the mainstay of Jianghan s socio-economy, which was even grouped...

... society" and interests in luxury commodities were not unique at all. The author's insightful discussion of China's consumption of sugar and of the Qing China's strong interest in "exotic" items from abroad seriously undermines the generally accepted view that China's anti-foreign cultural con? servatism...

..., dimension to the standard north-south divide in chinese agrarian studies. The most significant human response to these waterlogged conditions, systematically begun in the ming dynasty then expanded through the Qing and republican periods, was state and private diking. dike construction and maintenance...

... into the frontier, as well as enacting sociocultural influence. The river allowed for this movement, but it was the people, the hapless and the lucky travelers and migrants, who integrated the West River frontier with the Pearl River delta and then with the larger Qing empire. Most of the migrants moved through...

.... The author's insightful discussion of China's consumption of sugar and of the Qing China's strong interest in "exotic" items from abroad seriously undermines the generally accepted view that China's anti-foreign cultural con? servatism was responsible for its alleged economic stagnation. Pomeranz is careful...

... and administrative units rather than cultural ones. The Chinese embraced rail technology with great pragmatism. From the Qing Dynasty s last decades to the early Republic, Western expertise disseminated technology and knowledge, shaping the evolution of China s railroads. Thus, railroad companies emerged as a modern...

... embraced rail technology with great pragmatism. From the Qing Dynasty s last decades to the early Republic, Western expertise disseminated technology and knowledge, shaping the evolution of China s railroads. Thus, railroad companies emerged as a modern business institution adapted from the West...