The profits of nature : colonial development and the quest for resources in nineteenth-century China /
"In this book, Peter B. Lavelle uses the life and career of Chinese statesman Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885) as a lens to explore the environmental history of this era. Although known for his pacification campaigns against internal rebellions, Zuo was at the forefront of the nineteenth-century quest...
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| Main Author: |
Lavelle, Peter B.
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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