Jeremy Rifkin’s book on the “Third Industrial Revolution” has been out for a while, but I was thinking about the concepts and had a sudden brainstorm that seemed worth writing down.
Having spent six years (or more) researching forests and land rights in Ming-Qing China, it’s strange that I never spent much time with the Huizhou cadasters. Well, I finally pulled them out last December.
Since I started this project nearly a decade ago I’ve been trying to develop a…
Once again I find myself with material that’s not going to make it into the book.
I have argued here (and more concisely and correctly in a forthcoming article) that forestry emerged by the third century BCE as growing states faced the threat of wood and…