Environmental history in China—Editor’s introduction

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Notes

1 J.R. McNeill, “Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History,” History and Theory 42 (Dec. 2003): 5.

2 Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), quotes on xvii–xviii.

3 All of Robert M. Marks’ publications, along with John R. McNeill and other environmental historians’ studies, have appeared in Chinese and been well received in recent years.