A history of natural resources in Asia: The wealth of nature. - Ebook. - Originally published in: 2007
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1. Verfasser: Bankoff, Greg (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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Introduction: Natural Resources and the Shape of Asian History, 1500-2000 - Greg Bankoff & Peter Boomgaard * Natural Resource Management and Mismanagement: Observations from Southeast Asian Agricultural History - David Henley * PART I: RESOURCES AND STATE * The Physical Transformation of the Central Thai Region in Pre-Modern Times - Baas Terwiel * Poor Little Rich Islands: Metals in Bangka-Belitung and West Kalimantan - Mary Somers Heidhues * Making Places and Making States: Agriculture, Metallurgy, and the Wealth of Nature in South India - Kathleen Morrison * PART II: FORESTS AND DEVELOPMENT * From Wood to Timber: Changing Perceptions of Philippine Forests, 1565-1900 - Greg Bankoff * Seeing the Timber for the Forest: The Wood in Japanese Capitalism - Greg Clancey * Burma and the Politics of Teak: Dissecting a Resource Curse - Raymond Bryant * Losing Ground: Development, Natural Resources, and the Dispossession of Malaysia's Orang Asli - Robert Aiken * PART III: ENVIRONMENTS AND LIVELIHOODS * From Riches to Rags?: Rice Production and Trade in Asia, Particularly Indonesia, 1500-1950 - Peter Boomgaard * Instructive and Nourishing Landscapes: Natural Resources, People, and the State in Late Imperial China - Francesca Bray * Demographic Growth, Agricultural Expansion, and Livestock in the Lower Chindwin in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Michael Charney * "Stealing from the Gods:" Fisheries and Local Use of Natural Resources in Vietnam, 1800-2000 - John Kleinen
Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution and zones of affluence and deprivation within and between societies. This book explores why some Asian nations are more prosperous than others through an examination of how their interaction with and utilization of resources has changed over the centuries
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