Jonathan Schlesinger: 1 book
A World Trimmed with Fur
Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
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...
