...Andrew de la Garza Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India . By Pratyay Nath . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xli, 325 pp. ISBN: 9780199495559 (cloth). Water and the Environmental History of Modern India . By Velayutham Saravanan...

... and natural disasters, weaves the insights of environmental history into the other strands to create a more complete narrative. Its periodization adheres to political developments, and there are some chapters where the environment gets little attention. In A Concise History , environmental history is one...

...K. S. Narayana Rao Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment . By Aziz Ahmad . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1964 . x, 311 . Bibliography. Index. 45s. BOOK REVIEWS 157 limitations of his sources by his...

...Justin J. Green Slum as a Way of Life: A Study of Coping Behavior in an Urban Environment . By F. Landa Jocano . Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press , 1975 . xviii, 203 pp. Tables, Index. $10.00 (cloth); $6.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...I. N. Yoon Japan's Economy: Coping with Change in the International Environment . Edited by Daniel I. Okimoto . Boulder, Co. : Westview Press , 1982 . xv, 304 pp. Abbreviations, Contributors, Index. $30 (cloth), $13.50 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983...

... environments of the region. The authors, each a geographer who lived in and conducted research in Peninsular Malaysia during the 1970s, provide insights and descriptions of the environmental consequences of the impact of certain forms of economic activity (rubber, oil palm, padi, timber exploitation, tin...

... the world's first countries to recognize the necessity of a "comprehensive appraisal of environmental issues" (Fourth Five Year Plan, 1969-1974); in 1980 it created a cabinet-level Department of Environment (DOE). Powerful political and economic interests, however, have exerted continuous pressure on DOE...

...Carol Laderman Nous Gens de Ganchong: Environnement et échanges dans un village malais [We People of Ganchong: Environment and exchange in a Malay village] . By Josiane Massard . Paris : Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Documentation et de Recherches sur...

...Renato Rosaldo Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao: A Study of Environment, Culture and Society in Northern Luzon . By Harold C. Conklin . With the special assistance of Puggūwon Lupāih and Miklos Pinther. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1980 . Published with the cooperation...

...James A. Hafner Man and Environment in Eastern Timor: A Geoecological Analysis of the Bacau-Viqueque Area as a Possible Basis for Regional Planning . By Joachim K. Metzner . Canberra : Australian National University (Development Studies Centre Monograph No. 8), 1977 . xxix, 377 pp...

...John E. Brush Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment . By Anthony D. King . London : Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1976 . xvi, 328 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography, Indexes. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979...

...Rhoads Murphey Urban Development in Modern China . Edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Edward W. Hanten . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1981 . 264 pp. Maps, Tables, Diagrams, Notes and References, Index. $20. The Environment: Chinese and American Views . Edited by Laurence J. C...

.... $85.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper). The contributors to this edited volume treat the environment and environmentalism as a window through which researchers can explore broader processes of social, political, and economic change. The authors eloquently demonstrate that environmentalist discourses...

... regions. Although colonialism had endured in the Philippines since 1565, it was only in the nineteenth century that Europeans began to see themselves as maladapted to settlement in the islands. The tropics were increasingly regarded as a hostile and deleterious environment, and prolonged exposure to a hot...

...Iftikhar H. Malik Dilemmas of National Security and Cooperation in India and Pakistan . Edited by Hafeez Malik . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1993 . xvi, 320 pp. $69.95. Pakistan and Geostrategic Environment: A Study of Foreign Policy . By Hasan Askari Rizvi . New York : St...

.... The other two chapters were written by P. S. Ramakrishnan ("Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development in India and by I. L. Soya-Serko ("Environmental Problems in the Developing Countries by A.D. 2000 The book argues that despite India's impressive economic growth since independence, the path India...

..., the concentration of people in urban centers, and intensive natural-resource exploitation. In this context, the Ministry of Nature and Environment has a goal of designating protected-area status to 30 percent (now at 13 percent) of Mongolia s land area, with plans to promote environmental quality and economic...

...David Sneath Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia . By Dee M. Williams . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2002 . xii , 251 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003...

...Kathleen A. Gillogly Institutions, Livelihoods, and the Environment: Change and Response in Mainland Southeast Asia . Compiled by Andrea Straub . With an introduction by Per Ronnas. Nordic Proceedings in Asian Studies, no. 6. Copenhagen : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies , 2002 . 421...

...Peter C. Perdue Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China . By Robert B. Marks . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . xv, 383 pp. $64.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 497...