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Visuals of the Logging Frontier

Visuals of the Logging Frontier

When writing Fir and Empire, I was taken aback by the stories in Gong Hui 龔輝, Collected Essays on Timber Rafting in the Western Regions…
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Decolonization, the Game

I taught Modern East Asia for the second time this year. Really fun class to teach. The thing that struck me the second time around was how…
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Regional Patterns of Forestry in Four Maps

Regional Patterns of Forestry in Four Maps

Since I started this project nearly a decade ago I’ve been trying to develop a comprehensive picture of the regional orientations of…
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Ian Matthew Miller
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Non-Agrarian Land in Official Cadasters, 1148–1392

Non-Agrarian Land in Official Cadasters, 1148–1392

I previously posted a bit on tracing land use changes using government cadasters. I argued for both the expansion of private claims to…
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Myths of Southern Timber

Once again I find myself with material that’s not going to make it into the book.
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Energy commons and the “third industrial revolution”

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…
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Tracing changes in 16th century forests, in three maps

Tracing changes in 16th century forests, in three maps

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…
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Footprint of the Capitals, Part 1

Footprint of the Capitals, Part 1

Thanks to some very productive periods at Max Planck in Berlin and at Yale, I’ve had a chance to do some new work. This is building into a…
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