Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. General Chronology xiii
5. Chronology of the Zhou Era xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter one. The Nature of Political Power 14
8. Chapter two. Seeds of Life How People Came to Build Their Own Ecosystems 32
9. Chapter three. Herding People: The Rise of Political Organizations in China 74
10. Chapter four. The Power in the West: A History of the State of Qin 114
11. Chapter five. Watching Over the Granaries: The Ecology of the Qin Empire 154
12. Chapter six. A Hundred Generations: How China’s Empires Shaped Their Environments 190
13. Epilogue: States of the Anthropocene 201
14. Notes 205
15. Bibliography 245
16. Illustration Credits 289
17. Index 291