Environmental Change and the Rise of the Qin Empire: A Political Ecology of Ancient North China
This thesis examines the long-term ecological transformation of the Guanzhong plain, capital region of China’s ancient empires, from the origins of agriculture to the fall of the Qin Empire in 208 BCE. It employs textual, archaeological and paleoecological evidence to reconstruct the natural environ...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D88W3CKS |