{"product_id":"across-forest-steppe-and-mountain-david-a-bello-9781107068841","title":"Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands","description":"In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan within a corporatist 'Han Chinese' imperial political order. This unprecedented imperial unification resulted in the great human and ecological diversity that exists today. Using natural science literature in conjunction with under-utilized and new sources in the Manchu language, Bello demonstrates how Qing expansion and consolidation of empire was dependent on a precise and intense manipulation of regional environmental relationships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David A. Bello\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107068843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107068841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.33h x 6.26w x 1.08d","brand":"David A. Bello","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43924039139583,"sku":"9781107068841","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_22c3ca0e-f7e7-4fb7-8e68-a9224396c420.jpg?v=1681068118","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/across-forest-steppe-and-mountain-david-a-bello-9781107068841","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}