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A multidisciplinary environmental history of early Chinas political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological dataOver four thousand years of unsustainable growth, Chinese states replaced a diverse ecosystem with a monocropping grain state. All states destroy environments, but only the state can save us. So ancient Chinas spectres still haunt our modern crisis. A brilliant and disturbing analysis!Peter C. Perdue, author of Environmental History in China and the West: Its Origins and Prospects This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of Chinas early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North Chinas agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states in ancient China, and elsewhere, was based on their ability to exploit the labor and resources of those who harnessed photosynthetic energy from domesticated plants and animals. Focusing on the state of Qin, Lander amalgamates abundant new scientific, archaeological, and excavated documentary sources to argue that the human domination of the central Yellow River region, and the rest of the planet, was made possible by the development of complex political structures that managed and expanded agroecosystems.

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Yale Agrarian Studies Series

JAMES C. SCOTT, Series Editor

The Agrarian Studies Series at Yale University Press seeks to publish outstanding and original interdisciplinary work on agriculture and rural societyfor any period, in any location. Works of daring that question existing paradigms and fill abstract categories with the lived experience of rural people are especially encouraged.

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For a complete list of titles in the Yale Agrarian Studies Series, visit yalebooks.com/agrarian .

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A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire

BRIAN LANDER Published with assistance from the Chiang Chin - photo 1

BRIAN LANDER

Published with assistance from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for - photo 2

Published with assistance from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.

Copyright 2021 by Yale University

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021932808

ISBN 978-0-300-25508-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

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