Environmental history in the Pacific world / edited by J.R. McNeill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Commercialization without Capitalism: Processes of Environmental Change in South China, 1550- / Robert B. Marks -- 2. Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth: China's Environment from Archaic Times to the Present / Mark Elvin -- 3. Of Rats and Men: A Synoptic Environmental History of the Island Pacific / J.R. McNeill -- 4. Coming to Terms with Nature: State and Environment in Maritime Southeast Asia / Greg Bankoff -- 5. Peripheral Visions: Californian-Australian Environmental Contacts, c. 1850s- / Ian Tyrell -- 6. Biotic Change in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand / Alfred W Crosby -- 7. Population of the French Overseas Territories in the Pacific, Past, Present and Projected / J.-L. Rallu -- 8. Hydraulic Society in California: An Ecological Interpretation / Donald Worster -- 9. Humans and Forests in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid -- 10. Discrepancies between Environmental Attitude and Behaviour: Examples from Europe and China / Yi-Fu Tuan -- 11. Towards an Interactive Theory of Nature and Culture: Ecology, Production, and Cognition in the California / Fishing Industry -- 12. Putting a Ceiling on Sealing: Conservation and Cooperation in the International Arena, 1909- / Kurk Dorsey -- 13. A Sacred Mountain of Gold: The Creation of a Mining Resource Frontier in Papua New Guinea / David Hyndman -- 14. Ecology and the Poor: A Neglected Dimension of Latin American History / Joan Martinez-Alier -- 15. Patterns of Landscape Modification in Relation to Agricultural Practice in Central Chile / Eduardo R. Fuentes and Ernst R. Hajek -- 16. Resource Use and Environmental Management in Japan, 1890- / A. Radha Krishnan and Malcolm Tull -- 17. The Forests of Tokugawa Japan: A Catastrophe that was Avoided / Conrad Totman.

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