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100 1  Elvin, Mark.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n83238086 
245 14 The retreat of the elephants :|ban environmental history 
       of China /|cMark Elvin. 
264  1 New Haven :|bYale University Press,|c[2004] 
264  4 |c©2004 
300    1 online resource (xxviii, 564 pages) :|billustrations, 
       maps 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 530-547) and 
       index. 
505 0  Landmarks and time-marks -- Humans v. elephants : the 
       three thousand years war -- The great deforestation : an 
       overview -- The great deforestation : regions and species 
       -- War and the logic of short-term advantage -- Water and 
       the costs of system sustainability -- Richness to riches :
       the story of Jiaxing -- Chinese colonialism : Guizhou and 
       the Miao -- The riddle of longevity : why Zunhua? -- 
       Nature as revelation -- Science and superfauna -- Imperial
       dogma and personal perspectives. 
520    This is the first environmental history of China during 
       the three thousand years for which there are written 
       records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, 
       political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, 
       that allow the reader direct access to the views and 
       feelings of the Chinese people towards their environment 
       and their landscape. Elvin chronicles the spread of the 
       Chinese style of farming that eliminated the habitat of 
       the elephants that populated the country alongside much of
       its original wildlife; the destruction of most of the 
       forests; the impact of war on the environmental 
       transformation of the landscape; and the reengineering of 
       the countryside through water-control systems, some of 
       gigantic size. He documents the histories of three 
       contrasting localities within China to show how ecological
       dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he 
       shows that China in the eighteenth century, on the eve of 
       the modern era, was probably more environmentally degraded
       than northwestern Europe around this time. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
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650  0 Human ecology|zChina|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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650  0 Elephants|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
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650  7 Human ecology.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/962941 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Elephants.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/908011 
650  7 Deforestation.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/889763 
650  7 Environmental degradation.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/912877 
650  7 Environmental conditions.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
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651  0 China|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091151
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651  7 China.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1206073 
655  4 Electronic books. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aElvin, Mark.|tRetreat of the elephants.
       |dNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004|z0300101112
       |w(DLC)  2003017378|w(OCoLC)52819558 
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