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04001aam a2200529 i 4500 001 0D633956E55411E7AFB0C42A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171220010225 008 160815s2016 enkab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016026747 020 $a 1107155983 020 $a 9781107155985 035 $a (OCoLC)956947604 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CUV $d EYM $d BDX $d DGU $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/a-cc 050 00 $a DS793.Y45 $b Z455 2016 082 00 $a 951/.1024 $2 23 084 $a HIS003000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Zhang, Ling, $d 1978- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016044223 245 14 $a The river, the plain, and the state : $b an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 / $c Ling Zhang, Boston College. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xix, 318 pages : $b illustration, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in environment and history 520 $a "On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynasty. It created 80 years of social suffering, economic downturn, political upheaval, and environmental changes, which reshaped medieval North China Plain and challenged the state. Ling Zhang deftly applies textual analysis, theoretical provocation, and modern scientific data in her gripping analysis of how these momentous events altered China's physical and political landscapes and how its human communities adapted and survived. In so doing, she opens up an exciting new field of research by wedding environmental, political, economic, and social history in her examination of one of North China's most significant environmental changes"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page 291-307) and index. 505 0 $a Prologue. 1048: the opening of an environmental drama -- Part I. Pre-1048: Prelude to the Environmental Drama -- Before the Yellow River met the Hebei Plain -- The state's Hebei project -- The 1040s: on the eve of the flood -- Creating a delta landscape -- Part II. Post-1048: The Unfolding of the Environmental Drama -- Managing the Yellow River-Hebei environmental complex -- Life in the Yellow River Delta -- Agriculture: a subsistence-oriented economy -- Land and water: a thousand years of environmental trauma -- Epilogue. 1128: the close of the environmental drama. 651 0 $a Yellow River (China) $x History $y To 1500. 651 0 $a Yellow River (China) $x Environmental conditions. 650 0 $a Hydraulic engineering $z Yellow River $z Yellow River $x History $y To 1500. 651 0 $a Hebei Sheng (China) $x Environmental conditions. 651 0 $a Hebei Sheng (China) $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a China $x History $y Song dynasty, 960-1279. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024066 650 7 $a HISTORY / Asia / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Ecology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901476 650 7 $a Hydraulic engineering. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00964596 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 650 7 $a Song Dynasty (China) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01696776 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 651 7 $a China $z Hebei Sheng. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01215481 651 7 $a China $z Yellow River. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01243831 648 7 $a To 1500 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 830 0 $a Studies in environment and history. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84748923 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211024707.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0D633956E55411E7AFB0C42A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search