A History of Natural Resources in Asia

1. Introduction: Natural Resources and the Shape of Asian History, 1500–2000
Greg Bankoff, Peter Boomgaard

2. Natural Resource Management and Mismanagement
David Henley

Part 1. Resources and State

3. The Physical Transformation of the Central Thai Region in Premodern Times
Baas Terwiel

4. Poor Little Rich Islands
Mary Somers Heidhues

5. Making Places and Making States
Kathleen Morrison

Part 2. Forests and Development

6. Almost an Embarrassment of Riches
Greg Bankoff

7. Seeing the Timber for the Forest
Gregory Clancey

8. Burma and the Politics of Teak
Raymond Bryant

9. Losing Ground
S. Robert Aiken

Part 3. Environments and Livelihoods

10. From Riches to Rags?
Peter Boomgaard

11. Instructive and Nourishing Landscapes
Francesca Bray

12. Demographic Growth, Agricultural Expansion, and Livestock in the Lower Chindwin in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Michael Charney

13. “Stealing From The Gods”
John Kleinen

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Asian Politics, Environmental Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Asian Culture, Environmental Management, Political Science