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The Cultivated Forest
People and Woodlands in Asian History
Ian M. Miller,Bradley Camp Davis,Brian Lander,John S. Lee
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The Cultivated Forest
People and Woodlands in Asian History
Ian M. Miller,Bradley Camp Davis,Brian Lander,John S. Lee
About This Book
Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near present Forests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction to forest histories in East and Southeast Asia and a multidisciplinary set of authors, The Cultivated Forest constructs alternative lineages of forest knowledge that aim to transcend the frameworks imposed by colonial or national histories. Across these regions, forests were sites of exploitation, contestation, and ritual just as they were in Europe and America. This volume puts studies of Asian forests into conversation with global forest histories.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Cultivated Forest
- Chapter One. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity
- Chapter Two. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China
- Chapter Three. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475â1635
- Chapter Four. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late ChosĆn Korea, 1700â1900
- Chapter Five. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity
- Chapter Six. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern Chinaâs Imperial Woodland Complexes
- Chapter Seven. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective
- Chapter Eight. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological âBackwardnessâ in Republican China, 1911â1937
- Chapter Nine. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan
- Glossaries of Plant Names and Non-Roman Characters
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index