Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia

James Beattie

ISBN 10: 1137572302 / ISBN 13: 9781137572301

Published by Palgrave Macmillan UK, Palgrave Macmillan UK Mär 2016, 2016

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Neuware -Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 320 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Palgrave Macmillan UK Mär 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137572302
• ISBN 13: 9781137572301
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.

About the Author

Ts'ui-jung Liu has worked at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, for more than 30 years and was elected an Academician in 1996. She retired in January 2014 and is currently an adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. She has published three monographs and more than 70 articles related to economic history, population history, and environmental history.

James Beattie is Director of the Historical Research Unit at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where he teaches imperial, environmental, garden, and world history. He has published three monographs, co-edited three books, and written over 50 articles and chapters on topics in imperial environmental history, history of science, garden history, and art history. He is Founding Editor of International Review of Environmental History.