Empire of Timber - 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 Empire of Timber write by Erik Loomis. This book was released on 2016. Empire of Timber available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.
Timber and Forestry in Qing China
Timber and Forestry in Qing 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 Timber and Forestry in Qing China write by Meng Zhang. This book was released on 2021-06-30. Timber and Forestry in Qing China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Qing period (1644–1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China's southwestern frontier. She documents innovative property rights systems and economic incentives that convinced landowners to invest years in growing trees. Delving into rare archives to reconstruct business histories, she considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development.
Seeds of Control
Seeds of Control - 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 Seeds of Control write by David Fedman. This book was released on 2020-07-23. Seeds of Control available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea’s forest resources into supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan’s imperial sphere. These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after 1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total war. In this wide-ranging study David Fedman explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea—a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, Seeds of Control examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.” Drawing from sources in Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green imperialism in Asia.
Timber Empire
Timber Empire - 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 Timber Empire write by Grace Barker. This book was released on 2003. Timber Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sawdust Empire
Sawdust Empire - 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 Sawdust Empire write by Robert S. Maxwell. This book was released on 1983. Sawdust Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive story of logging, lumbering, and forest conservation in Texas records the industry's history from the earliest days of the Republic, when a few isolated operations provided for local needs, through the first four decades of the twentieth century. Supplemented by over one hundred photographs, many never before published, the text re-creates Texas' heyday as one of the nation's leading timber producers. At that time, the forested area equaled the state of Indiana. In the words of one visitor, the forest was "like a vast wave that has rolled in upon a level beach ... creeping forward, thinning out, and finally disappearing, except where, along a river course, it pushes far inland."
