A History of Natural Resources in Asia
The Wealth of Nature
(Sprache: Englisch)
Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution and zones of affluence and deprivation within and between societies. This book explores why some Asian nations are more prosperous than others through an examination of...
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Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution and zones of affluence and deprivation within and between societies. This book explores why some Asian nations are more prosperous than others through an examination of how their interaction with and utilization of resources has changed over the centuries.
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Introduction: Natural Resources and the Shape of Asian History, 1500-2000; G.Bankoff & P.Boomgaard Natural Resource Management and Mismanagement: Observations from Southeast Asian Agricultural History; D.Henley PART I: RESOURCES AND STATE The Physical Transformation of the Central Thai Region in Pre-Modern Times; B.Terwiel Poor Little Rich Islands: Metals in Bangka-Belitung and West Kalimantan; M.Somers Heidhues Making Places and Making States: Agriculture, Metallurgy, and the Wealth of Nature in South India; K.Morrison PART II: FORESTS AND DEVELOPMENT From Wood to Timber: Changing Perceptions of Philippine Forests, 1565-1900; G.Bankoff Seeing the Timber for the Forest: The Wood in Japanese Capitalism; G.Clancey Burma and the Politics of Teak: Dissecting a Resource Curse; R.Bryant Losing Ground: Development, Natural Resources, and the Dispossession of Malaysia's Orang Asli; R.Aiken PART III: ENVIRONMENTS AND LIVELIHOODS From Riches to Rags?: Rice Production and Trade in Asia, Particularly Indonesia, 1500-1950; P.Boomgaard Instructive and Nourishing Landscapes: Natural Resources, People, and the State in Late Imperial China; F.Bray Demographic Growth, Agricultural Expansion, and Livestock in the Lower Chindwin in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; M.Charney "Stealing from the Gods:" Fisheries and Local Use of Natural Resources in Vietnam, 1800-2000; J.Kleinen
Autoren-Porträt
GREG BANKOFF is Associate Professor of History, University of Auckland, New Zealand.PETER BOOMGAARD is Senior Researcher, KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2007, 1st ed., 288 Seiten, Maße: 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben von Bankoff, G.; Boomgaard, P.
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1349537446
- ISBN-13: 9781349537440
Sprache:
Englisch
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