The Cultivated Forest

People and Woodlands in Asian History

Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, Brian Lander , John S. Lee

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University of Washington Press
29 November 2022

Asian history; Forests, rainforests; The Earth: natural history general

Series: The Cultivated Forest

Forests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction to forest histories in East and Southeast Asia and a multidisciplinary set of authors, The Cultivated Forest constructs alternative lineages of forest knowledge that aim to transcend the frameworks imposed by colonial or national histories. Across these regions, forests were sites of exploitation, contestation, and ritual just as they were in Europe and America. This volume puts studies of Asian forests into conversation with global forest histories.

Edited by: Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, Brian Lander, John S. Lee
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 407g
ISBN: 9780295750903
ISBN 10: 0295750901
Series: The Cultivated Forest
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 29 November 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Ian M. Miller is assistant professor of history at St. John’s University. He is author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Bradley Camp Davis is associate professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is author of Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. Brian Lander is assistant professor of history and environment and society at Brown University. He is author of The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire. John S. Lee is assistant professor of East Asian history at Durham University. Contributors: David A. Bello, John Elijah Bender, Brian Collins, Keala Hagmann, Stevan Harrell, Tom Hinckley, Larissa Pitts, Amanda Schmidt, Faizah Zakaria, and Meng Zhang

Reviews for The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History

"""...a superb array of essays makes this fascinating collection invaluable. The rubric of “cultivated forests” is enormously productive in helping us understand that human societies never developed separately from trees but in intimate association with them, shaping forests and being shaped in return."" * Seoul Journal of Korean Studies *"