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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 762–764.
Published: 01 August 2021
...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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1037–1058.
Published: 01 November 2018
... explorers noted eroded slopes in 1877, and imperial land surveyors described stretches of “idle, fallow land” decades earlier. This article describes a longer history of a “wasteland” not only to challenge a presentist framing of environmental decline but also to recognize the historic roles people played...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 483–485.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Richard P. Tucker Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia . Edited by David Arnold and Ramchandra Guha . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xi, 376 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 529–535.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... The increasing amount of work on Japanese environmental history of various and assorted stripes highlights vibrancy and insights I could not have imagined a decade and a half ago. The lone cultural approach among the volume's essays is perhaps that of Gregory Smits, who uses an examination of several works...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 May 2018
... characterized as a point of rupture, represented less a moment of disjuncture than it did a period of accelerated continuity. This article interweaves environmental, military, and development history to analyze several UN programs in the Republic of Korea between 1950 and 1953, demonstrating that the UN viewed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 365–368.
Published: 01 May 2018
... the reconstitution of nature, the essays collectively introduce diverse approaches to the study of environmental issues in Asia and elsewhere. Most of all, they demonstrate that transnational environmental history on the Korean peninsula can no longer be overlooked when dwelling on and debating major historical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on climate and hygiene made legible the consequences of transforming this nomadic borderland into an agrarian heartland on colonized bodies. By bringing attention to the understudied Mongol territories in Manchukuo, this essay goes beyond environmental histories bound by the nation-state to reveal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 257–284.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... Elvin Mark . 2004 . The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press . Endicott Stephen . 1988 . Red Earth: Revolution in a Sichuan Village . London : Tauris & Co . Fan Chengda 范成大. [late 1100s] 1966 . Wu Chuan Lu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 963–985.
Published: 01 November 2017
... that the exercise of sovereignty required a bounded space that only borders could provide and a rejection of competing border zone authorities. The local specificity of each border, however, created the historical conditions in which political elites acted. Combining an archival history methodology with conceptual...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 963–974.
Published: 01 November 2014
... specializations. Nonetheless, it is possible to conjecture that some of these questions will probably revolve around the three issues that drive much of environmental history: (1) the history of human thought about the environment, (2) the influence of environmental factors on human history, and (3...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 369–373.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Micah S. Muscolino Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 agriculture Anthropocene China environmental history forestry Japan Korea war Having taught graduate seminars on the environmental history of East Asia and entertained the idea of writing a book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1199–1200.
Published: 01 November 2010
... environmental histories concern the land and “changes in the land.” On the one hand, that focus seems natural because human beings are land creatures, and environmental history examines the mutual interactions between changes in human society and anthropogenic and natural changes in the environment...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 782–784.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Gunnel Cederlöf Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats, and Conservation in the Western Himalaya . By Vasant K. Saberwal . Studies in Social Ecology and Environmental History. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha , eds. Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1999 . xviii, 246 pp. Rs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 248–250.
Published: 01 February 2020
... environmental history and environmental anthropology, at least. That being said, detailing global environmentalism is not a central aim of this work and this lack of description does not detract from Avenell's main arguments nor the book's key contributions. This thoroughly researched and well-structured...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 315–318.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of thousands of fish (Lah, Park, and Cho 2015 , 385). This process of alternation on the peninsula has produced a rich and complex history of environmental issues in Korea. Its impact not only on nature, but also on people's everyday lives, lived experiences, social relationships, culture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 850–852.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... Walker again combines the long history of these industrial sites with cultural, political, and economic factors to illustrate the intricate web of environmental degradation. On the one hand there was the direct damage to agricultural communities downstream from the mines caused by heavy metals entering...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 975–987.
Published: 01 November 2014
... historians and philosophers. There are names for the small overlapping areas in which these questions have already been raised: environmental humanities, the history and philosophy of science, and science and technology studies, for example. Currently marginal interdisciplinary spaces, these kinds...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 February 2013
... literature on Chinese environmental history. In eight succinct but fact-filled chapters, Marks covers the entire period from ancient China to the present in a fluently written, balanced, and accessible manner. For the first time, general readers can gain a sophisticated overview of Chinese interactions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 698–700.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the global biodiversity crisis percolates into the popular consciousness, there remains a tacit assumption that the sixth mass extinction event in our planet's history is an inadvertent biproduct of certain human activities. Brian Lander's environmental history of early China drives home the point that, far...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 824–825.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Eric Strahorn The one weakness of the book is Haines's evaluation of the literature of environmental history. He notes that Rivers Divided is not a work of environmental history but then makes the claim that “historians have had relatively little to say about the role that the natural...
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