A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and

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A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources. In A World Trimmed with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth centuryâ€•pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.
Country USA
Brand Stanford University Press
Manufacturer Stanford University Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780804799966
ReleaseDate 2017-01-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780804799966

Country	USA
Brand	Stanford University Press
Manufacturer	Stanford University Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780804799966
ReleaseDate	2017-01-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780804799966

A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule

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