A World Trimmed with Fur - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World Trimmed with Fur write by Jonathan Schlesinger. This book was released on 2017-01-11. A World Trimmed with Fur available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources. In A World Trimmed with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century—pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.
Historic Fashion from Around the World
Historic Fashion from Around the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historic Fashion from Around the World write by Pauquet Brothers. This book was released on 2006-12-15. Historic Fashion from Around the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reproduced directly from a rare nineteenth-century publication, these splendid engravings serve as a guide to more than four centuries of high fashion. Full-length portraits of impeccably dressed men and women reveal what the style-conscious were wearing from the late fifteenth century to the mid 1800s. Fur-trimmed robes, brocaded gowns, and beautifully embroidered apparel are on display in adaptations of portraits by Dürer, Titian, Holbein, Rubens, van Dyck. and other celebrated artists. Included are handsome representations of Tudor monarchs, the Doge of Venice, a noble lady of Antwerp, as well as members of the elite — and lower classes — in Poland, Spain, Persia, Turkey, India, China, and other Asian and European countries. A valuable sourcebook for commercial artists, designers, and crafters, this collection will also serve as a handy reference for students of fashion history.
Touring China
Touring China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touring China write by Yajun Mo. This book was released on 2021-12-15. Touring China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Touring China, Yajun Mo explores how early twentieth century Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited, and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to imagine their vast country. The roots of China's tourism market stretch back over a hundred years, when railroad and steamship networks expanded into the coastal regions. Tourism-related businesses and publications flourished in urban centers while scientific exploration, investigative journalism, and wartime travel propelled many Chinese from the eastern seaboard to its peripheries. Mo considers not only accounts of overseas travel and voyages across borderlands, but also trips within China. On the one hand, via travel and travel writing, the unity of China's coastal regions, inland provinces, and western frontiers was experienced and reinforced. On the other, travel literature revealed a persistent tension between the aspiration for national unity and the anxiety that China might fall apart. Touring China tells a fascinating story about the physical and intellectual routes people took on various journeys, against the backdrop of the transition from Chinese empire to nation-state.
The Tree Shepherd's Daughter
The Tree Shepherd's Daughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tree Shepherd's Daughter write by Gillian Summers. This book was released on 2010-09-08. The Tree Shepherd's Daughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood must leave California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival. Playacting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girl’s worst nightmare. But then Keelie starts seeing fairies and uncovers her connection to a community of elves.
Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain
Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain write by David A. Bello. This book was released on 2016-02-04. Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using Manchu and Chinese sources, this book explores the environmental history of Qing China's Manchurian, Inner Mongolian, and Yunnan borderlands.
