A history of natural resources in Asia : the wealth of nature / edited by Greg Bankoff and Peter Boomgaard
Author(s): Boomgaard, Peter | Bankoff, Greg.
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- A history of natural resources in Asia : the wealth of nature
- Author(s)
- Bankoff, Greg.
Boomgaard, Peter - Publisher
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- Collation
- xvi, 288 p. : ill., maps
24 cm. - ISBN
- 9781403977366
- Dewey Class
- 333.095
- Contents
- 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. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Natural resources -- Asia -- Management.
- BRN
- 540
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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333.095 HIS
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