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Mark Elvin, Liu Tsʻui-jung

This collection of essays is the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China. Written by some of the world's leading Western and Chinese experts, Sediments of Time crystallizes a new and distinct field of scholarship that studies what happens when human social systems interact with the rest of the natural world. This book shows how deforestation, land reclamation, settlement, and water control, when combined with an ever-changing climate, shaped a distinctive and often precarious environment.

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Dian O'Brien, Thomas O'Brien

"The text covers seven major themes: the pre modern world, the effects of epidemic disease on history, the rise of the great trading empire during early modern times, the establishment of western global domination during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and resistance to that domination, the causes and effects of modern revolutions, discussions of the United States and its role in the world during the twentieth century, and finally the process of globalization" -- Page x.

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Carolyn Higbie

Using an inscription from the 1st century BC as the starting point, this text studies the ancient Greeks' perception of their past. Drawing on anthropological theory and archaeological and literary evidence, it explores how ancient Greeks reconstructed their past and utilised it in their present.

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Moyra Haslett

"In this study Moyra Haslett argues that marxist literary and cultural theories are more diverse than is conventionally thought, drawing upon the work of a wide range of marxist thinkers. She discusses the works of those who sought to theorize the relationships between literature and culture and between culture and ideology, including Volosinov, Lukacs, Jameson, and Fagleton. The second section of the book looks at marxist readings of three very different topics: the work of the eighteenth-century poet Mary Leapor, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the film versions of Jane Austen's novels made in the 1990s. Haslett ably demonstrates that marxist readings have continuing relevance and great creative potential."--BOOK JACKET.