Micah S. Muscolino

The Ecology of War in China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province from 1938-50.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781107071568
• ISBN-10: 1107071569
• Artikelnr.: 41611445

Autorenporträt

Micah Muscolino is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. A militarized river: the 1938 Yellow River flood and its aftermath
2. Stories of survival: refugee migration and ecological adaptation
3. Military metabolism and the Henan famine of 1942-3
4. Against the flow: hydraulic instability and ecological exhaustion
5. The ecology of displacement: social and environmental effects of refugee migration
6. The land needs the people, the people need the land: beginnings of postconflict recovery
7. Reconstruction and revolution
Conclusion.