The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 / Lin...
The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 / Lin...
The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 / Ling Zhang, Boston College.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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G 2017/1535
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English
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xix, 318 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Prologue. 1048: the opening of an environmental drama -- Part I. Pre-1048: Prelude to the Environmental Drama -- Before the Yellow River met the Hebei Plain -- The state's Hebei project -- The 1040s: on the eve of the flood -- Creating a delta landscape -- Part II. Post-1048: The Unfolding of the En...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2016.
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"On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynast...
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The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 / Ling Zhang, Boston College.
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Studies in environment and history
Includes bibliographical references (page 291-307) and index.
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G 2017/1535
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74VKVVe7VdbM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVVe7VdbM
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1107155983 (hardback)
9781107155985 (hardback)
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951.1024
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991024098385002626
